Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

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

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 ...

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

There was something that was as high as a pole with eight metres before the trees overthrew it. The fossils of what long has been considered a giant ancient fungus, the Prototaxites, have been ...

It feels like it doesn’t fit comfortably anywhere,” says Matthew Nelsen, a senior research scientist at the Field Museum of ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

Researchers say the fossil found in Aberdeenshire is neither plant nor fungus as previously thought.

Protaxites: The discovery that could change the understanding of life - Scientists have potentially discovered a new ...

For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world.

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 ...

Prototaxites fossils unearthed in Scotland that will be exhibited in the National Museums Scotland is believed to belong to gigantic organisms ...