Ancient seed plant fossils reveal pollen-capture secret
How did Earth's earliest seed plants capture pollen to reproduce? A team of scientists has uncovered new clues by ...
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 ...
Scientists baffled at mysterious ancient creature that doesn't fit on the tree of life as we know it
An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...
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 ...
A Fungi Pioneer’s Lifelong Work on Exhibit
Murals made by museum artists illustrate the biology of fungi, the role they play in the ecosystem and their evolutionary ...
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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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It’s the last weekend of March – here’s how to spend it
March might be ending, but as the month of madness wraps up, Canberra isn't slowing down. In fact, this weekend if jam-packed ...
This Bizarre Fossil Isn’t a Plant, Animal, or Fungus—Turns Out It’s a Whole New Form of Life
Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...