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

Millions of years before the first trees grew their canopies and the earliest insects buzzed, a strange organism sprouted ...

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

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

Researchers emphasize that this fossil confirms that cerapodan dinosaurs underwent diversification well before the Cretaceous ...

Scientists discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form ...

On this week's episode: is our universe inside a black hole, Antarctic explorers, tracking teenaged turtles, and ...

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

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