Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

But trees didn’t yet exist during the Silurian period, so what exactly was this thing taking over the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana? That argument was never truly settled. Most scientists ...

In fact, trees didn’t even exist during the Silurian period, making that conclusion ... Maybe an ancient animal? No animal has ever had cell walls like these. "We found no support for the ...

He called the organism Prototaxites, meaning “first conifer.” The name stuck, even though the fossil didn’t quite match any ...

Scientists from the UK recently conducted a detailed re-examination of a fossilized Prototaxites species found in ...

This new species of ancient arthropod has been affectionately named Sue and scientifically dubbed Keurbos susanae.

Quetzalcoatlus, one of the largest known flying animals, lived around 70-65 million years ago ... scorpion that hunted along the shorelines of North America during the Silurian period, around 444 to ...

“NATURE vibrates with rhythms, climatic and dystrophic, those finding stratigraphic expression ranging In period from the rapid ... ippian Devonian Silurian Ordovician Cambrian Latc Early ...

Professor Tait would even limit the period since the earth's consolidation ... ders of plants and animals—changes which are comprehended under the one word “evolution.” ...

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