Millions of years before the first trees grew their canopies and the earliest insects buzzed, a strange organism sprouted ...

In a world that looked nothing like today’s, long before the rise of the dinosaurs or even the first trees, giant living ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

Despite all the research that is carried out, there are still many mysteries to be solved, not only in the vastness of space, but also on our planet. Thanks to these studies, we kn ...

This new species of ancient arthropod has been affectionately named Sue and scientifically dubbed Keurbos susanae.

Scientists discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form ...

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...

Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...

A 444-million-year-old fossil named "Sue" preserves internal organs of Keurbos susanae, raising questions about arthropod ...

Manufactured objects will form distinctive, if sometimes hard to interpret, clues to human existence, paleontologist authors ...

Prototaxites may be one of those evolutionary experiments—a form of life that thrived for millions of years, then vanished, leaving only fossils and unanswered questions. What caused its ...