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

Scientists then leaned towards it being a giant fungus, but the classification remained uncertain. A 2007 study even ...

Since Prototaxites were discovered in the fossil record in 1843, scientists have debated whether they were early land plants, ...

The first ammonoids also arose during the Devonian. Related to octopuses and squid, these marine animals survived until the end of the Cretaceous period, 65 million years ago. Plants began ...

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

Three hundred and sixty million years ago, in the Devonian era, there were no trees yet. The only animals living on land were invertebrates. But enormous fungi towered over the landscape.

How did Earth's earliest seed plants capture pollen to reproduce? A team of scientists has uncovered new clues by ...