Backed by a National Science Foundation grant of more than $500,000, Pfeifer, the lead principal investigator, and a team of ...

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 ...

The planet's trees have seen plenty of history pass by their trunks. In fact, they began to populate Earth 385 million years ...

Protaxites: The discovery that could change the understanding of life - Scientists have potentially discovered a new ...

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

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 ...

The artificial intelligence (AI) boom is driving a huge increase in electricity demand, particularly from data centers. That ...

An ancient shark older than forests still glides through deep oceans today. Its strange teeth, slow life cycle, and ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...

Experts and novices alike hunt for specimens that could change our understanding of evolution – and all only a short day trip from Melbourne ...