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

A research team led by the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) was able to revive dormant stages of ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on ...

A bizarre 400-million-year-old fossil may not be a plant, animal, or even a fungus. Known asPrototaxites, this extinct ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Strange, tiny structures have been found in the rocks around the deserts of southern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

These three transitions in carbonate factories may reflect the direct impact of the Late Paleozoic climate changes on the marine carbonate production process. Climate change governs seawater ...

Even if several extraterrestrial life forms were discovered tomorrow, nobody would study them without comparing them with terrestrial life. Thus there is a need for a word which includes all life ...

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