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

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

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

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

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

This week, a lost aurora on Neptune that was first hinted at 36 years ago has finally been captured by JWST, a newly ...

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 ...

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

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

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