He called the organism Prototaxites, meaning “first conifer.” The name stuck, even though the fossil didn’t quite match any ...

430 million years ago, towering life-forms known as Prototaxites emerged ... But trees didn’t yet exist during the Silurian period, so what exactly was this thing taking over the ancient ...

This new species of ancient arthropod has been affectionately named Sue and scientifically dubbed Keurbos susanae.

The flight of time is measured by the weaving of composite rhythms— day and night, calm and storm, summer and winter, birth and death—such as these are sensed in the brief life of man.

Seeing what vast changes have taken place on the earth— so many thousands of feet of solid rock formed by slow deposition in water, so many new forms of life introduced at certain epochs ...

Living members of Mollusca represent the broadest morphological disparity of any animal phylum: mollusc body plans encompass squid, worms, living rocks and candy-coloured tree snails, as well as ...

A common mineral, α-alumina, found abundantly in Earth's crust, may have played a critical role in initiating the chemical ...

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a strange, alien world. Covered in rivers and lakes of liquid methane, icy boulders and ...

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