Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...

He called the organism Prototaxites, meaning “first conifer.” The name stuck, even though the fossil didn’t quite match any ...

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

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

Scientists are suggesting there may be a brand new type of life — or, at least, that one existed back in the day.

Since Prototaxites were discovered in the fossil record in 1843, scientists have debated whether they were early land plants, ...

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

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

Scientists have discovered the key role the Southern Ocean around Antarctica plays in regulating the global climate ...

A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.

An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers -- the first ever record of such a ...