Scientists from the UK recently conducted a detailed re-examination of a fossilized Prototaxites species found in ...

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

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

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

In fact, trees didn’t even exist during ... Popular media jumped on the idea, proclaiming that giant fungi once ruled the Earth. In 2017, a separate fossil fragment from a smaller species ...

Our beloved planet has seen giants that dwarf most animals alive today. These massive creatures lived across different time ...

An ancient species of giant flying squirrel was found in a sinkhole lake fossil site in eastern Tennessee. Photo by Dan Meyers via Unsplash Scientists had an idea of what prehistoric Appalachia ...