Previously believed to be plant or fungi, these giant organisms may have been a now-extinct fourth type of life.

A group of researchers, including Harrisburg University of Science and Technology (HU) Professor Dr. Steven Jasinski, has ...

Professor Janis said, "The vegetational habitat was more important for the course of Cretaceous mammalian evolution than any ...

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

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

How did Earth's earliest seed plants capture pollen to reproduce? A team of scientists has uncovered new clues by ...

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of fungi — ...

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