Giant, Ancient Life Form Doesn’t Fit Into Any Known Branch of Life
Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...
After 7,000 years without light and oxygen in Baltic Sea mud, researchers bring prehistoric algae back to life
A research team led by the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) was able to revive dormant stages of ...
Scientists: Giant Organism May Have Been A Previously Unknown Life-Form
Prototaxites, the first giant organism to live on land, have long been thought to have been some sort of plant, fungus or algae. Now, a new research paper ...
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Mysterious Giants May Be a Whole New Kind of Life That No Longer Exists
Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites ...
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Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life
An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...
How calcium may have unlocked the origins of life's molecular asymmetry
A new study led by researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, has uncovered a surprising role for calcium in shaping life's earliest molecular ...
Scientists Discovered the Tunnels of a Possibly Unknown Ancient Lifeform
For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on ...
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Scientists Just Found a Fossil That Doesn’t Belong to Any Known Life Form — What Is It?
A bizarre 400-million-year-old fossil may not be a plant, animal, or even a fungus. Known asPrototaxites, this extinct ...