Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...

In a breakthrough discovery that rewrites evolution, scientists in Edinburgh have confirmed that Prototaxites, an ...

Prototaxites fossils unearthed in Scotland that will be exhibited in the National Museums Scotland is believed to belong to gigantic organisms ...

A 370 million-year-old fossil found in Scotland is an entirely new form of life which towered 26ft tall, scientists have confirmed.

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

Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites have proven impossible to categorize. Researchers in the UK have suggested ...

A TOTALLY new form of life that towered at 26ft tall has been discovered by UK scientists 370 million years after it went ...

The planet's trees have seen plenty of history pass by their trunks. In fact, they began to populate Earth 385 million years ago, toward the end of the Devonian period. Considered living historical ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of evolution’s most haunting survivors.

A project which has created a diverse urban oasis in a dramatic transformation of the National History Museum’s grounds in ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...