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

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

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

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

These organisms, named Prototaxites, lived around 420 million to 375 million years ago during the Devonian period and ...

These organisms, lived on our planet about 420-375 million years ago during the Devonian period. They looked like huge tree trunks ... scientists could not figure out whether these organisms were ...

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 ...

This plant-insect reciprocal interaction goes back to the Devonian period, a time when there was a large super-continent called Gondwana. That’s when the first land plants evolved and dominated ...

Murals made by museum artists illustrate the biology of fungi, the role they play in the ecosystem and their evolutionary ...

Scientists then leaned towards it being a giant fungus, but the classification remained uncertain. A 2007 study even ...