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

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

Could supernovas have triggered ancient mass extinctions on Earth? New research explores how cosmic explosions may have ...

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 research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

The researchers also studied fossils of extinct fishes dating back almost 400 million years and saw evidence that some of the oldest jawed fishes had bones with joint cavities for articulated ...

How did Earth's earliest seed plants capture pollen to reproduce? A team of scientists has uncovered new clues by ...

During the Devonian geological era ... along with armored fish and other marine species. A cataclysmic shift at the end of the Ordovician led to the disappearance of about 85% of species at ...

Scientists discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form ...