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 ...

Giant mystery fossil reveals secrets of whole new form of life that no longer exists - Prototaxites belonged to an ‘entirely extinct evolutionary branch of life‘ ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

A 370 million-year-old fossil found in Scotland is an entirely new form of life which towered 26ft tall, scientists have confirmed.

Researchers say the fossil found in Aberdeenshire is neither plant nor fungus as previously thought.

A new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities challenges previous classifications paleontologists use ...

Sensitive hearing may have evolved in mammal ancestors far earlier than scientists once believed. By modeling how sound moved ...

One of the scientists behind a new breakthrough paper on the organisms said they "are life, but not as we now know it".

Long before forests of tall trees covered the planet, Earth was ruled by something stranger: towering, trunk like organisms ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

Prototaxites fossils are neither plant or fungus.