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

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

An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...

A bizarre 400-million-year-old fossil may not be a plant, animal, or even a fungus. Known asPrototaxites, this extinct ...

Fossils of fungi in Arctic Canada date back to anywhere from 890 million to more than 1 billion years ago, according to a study published today (May 22) in Nature. The previously known earliest fossil ...

This is the first time that a fossil thrips has been recorded anywhere in Africa, or the entire southern hemisphere.

Scientists from China and United States have discovered fungi fossils dating back 630 million years in southwest China's Guizhou Province. This is the earliest terrestrial fungi fossil evidence ever ...

In return, the fungi receive carbon to grow their networks. In this way, 13 billion tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide — one-third of fossil-fuel emissions worldwide — enter the soil each year.

Strobel speculates, "If fungi like this are producing myco-diesel all over the rainforest, they may have contributed to the formation of fossil fuels." Strobel is the lead author of the paper ...