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 ...

An ancient cerapodan dinosaur fossil discovered in Morocco has been identified as the oldest of its kind, shedding light on ...

The fossils, found in Changxing County ... Capturing airborne pollen was crucial for their survival, but how these ancient plants managed it has long puzzled scientists. Using advanced 3D modeling ...

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

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

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

An ancient cerapodan dinosaur fossil discovered in Morocco has been ... with an impressive 193 million years old age belonging to a plant-eater species named Archaeocursor asiaticus.

Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric ...