On a spring morning, a search for a specific species of fern leads to a discussion on ancient plant history, vascular beauty ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

These towering life-forms, known as Prototaxites, appeared around 430 million years ago during the Silurian period, dominating a landscape where early plants barely grew past your ankles.

It was a morning in early April and Nature was playing tricks on us. The weather had been cold and raw for days, but then ...

It is a fungus called the scarlet elf cup, Sarcoscypha austriaca. It grows on buried twigs of birch and willow and sends up ...

“NATURE vibrates with rhythms, climatic and dystrophic, those finding stratigraphic expression ranging In period from the rapid ... ippian Devonian Silurian Ordovician Cambrian Latc Early ...