Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have ...

For over a century, it was assumed that science had a handle on the big categories of life on Earth: plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms were t.

Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...

Learn about Prototaxites, a bizarre group of prehistoric organisms that fall within an unknown lineage of extinct life.

Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites have proven impossible to categorize. Researchers in the UK have suggested ...

A 410 million year-old fossil from Aberdeenshire which scientists have identified as being a ‘new’ form of life, distinct from plants or fungi, has been added to the collections of National Museums ...

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A 410 million year-old fossil from Aberdeenshire which scientists have identified as being a ‘new’ form of life, distinct from ...

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Scientists have confirmed that a fossil unearthed in Scotland represents a completely new form of life. The organism, known ...

However, as research progressed, it became evident that this ancient giant did not fit neatly into any known category of life. The scientific community has long debated whether Prototaxites was an ...

Under the lead of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) the influence of parasitic fungi on the ...