Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A life reconstruction of Prototaxites taiti growing in the 407-million-year-old Rhynie chert ecosystem. (CREDIT: M. Humpage, ...

Scientists Discover a New Form of Life Standing 26 Feet Tall ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s impression of what the long extinct species of prototaxites may have looked like. (Matt Hunpage/PA) A fossil of ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin has produced what may be the strongest evidence yet that the ...

Rocks gathered along the Colorado River contained evidence of a bustling community of animals in an ancient sea. Scientists recovered dozens of fist-size Cambrian rocks estimated between 502 million ...

(CNN) — Some 400 million years ago, long before dinosaurs or even trees had evolved, an enigmatic organism towered over the landscape like a prehistoric monolith. Now, new research makes the case that ...

(CNN) — Some 400 million years ago, long before dinosaurs or even trees had evolved, an enigmatic organism towered over the landscape like a prehistoric monolith. Now, new research makes the case that ...

The research led by the University of Bristol was published in the scientific journal Nature 3 December, the research indicates that complex organisms evolved long before there were substantial levels ...

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have been like. As an organism that appeared to grow up through Earth’s crust in ...