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

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

Scientists are suggesting there may be a brand new type of life — or, at least, that one existed back in the day.

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

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

That, however, may have just changed. Back in 2007, the carbon isotopes in fossils convinced scientists this really was a fungus, since they appeared to be evidence that Prototaxites behaved like ...

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

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