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 ...

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

Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...

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

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

While preparing to build a power substation next to a Utah residential subdivision, a prehistoric field of dinosaur and other ...

When the first Prototaxites fossil was unearthed in 1843, it was mistaken for an ancient rotting conifer. But trees didn’t yet exist during the Silurian period, so what exactly was this thing ...

A team of scientists has uncovered new clues by studying 365-million-year-old seed plant fossils from China. The discovery, led by researchers from Peking University and the Chinese Academy of ...