A major fossil site bearing witness to the Cambrian explosion and providing evolutionary evidence for early life-forms, it was deemed one of the most surprising scientific discoveries of the 20th ...

The flight of time is measured by the weaving of composite rhythms— day and night, calm and storm, summer and winter, birth and death—such as these are sensed in the brief life of man.

These are called the Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic ... there have been several times when there have been large extinctions of animals and other forms of life. For the most part, ...

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

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

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 ...

Anicka Yi's ongoing exhibition at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, explores her thoughts on the interchange between humans and other life-forms in an array of mesmerizing ...

However, the universe may harbour life forms based on entirely different principles and biochemistries. Life elsewhere could use different elements as building blocks. Silicon, with its chemical ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

The operator described the discovery as 'significant' to natural gas exploration in the Paleozoic granite buried hills in Beibu Gulf basin. Alex Procyk is Upstream Editor at Oil & Gas Journal.