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 ...

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

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

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

Some 60,000-year-old wild Sichuan pepper seeds unearthed at the Mengxihe Site in Ziyang, Sichuan province, have helped shed ...

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

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

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

They show the gritty side of dinosaur life,” Lacovara said. “Dinosaurs were authentic beings that lived under their own ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus flytrap-like abdomen to ...