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

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

A new study claims that Prototaxites, which have defied classification for two centuries, might just be an entirely novel ...

Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites ...

This piece was thought to resemble structures found in modern Ascomycota, a group of fungi that includes yeasts and molds. But not all researchers were convinced. Some doubted whether the so ...

Among them, the relative abundance of Ascomycota as the dominant fungi accounted for 77.98–99.19% and Basidiomycota accounted for only 0.77–21.96%. Compared with the initial barley, at 180 days of ...

World’s fungi at risk from agriculture, deforestation and urban sprawl – experts. Fungi are the unsung heroes of life on Earth, forming the very foundation of healthy ecosystems. Many of the world’s ...

The observed shifts in dominant species, particularly the decrease in Ascomycota dominance and the increase in Basidiomycota, as well as changes in community stability and complexity, have important ...

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