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

In fact, trees didn’t even exist during the Silurian period ... fungi, and early plants. Comparing P. taiti to other fossils from the same deposit allowed researchers to test their findings ...

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

When the first Prototaxites fossil was unearthed in 1843, it was mistaken for an ancient rotting conifer. But trees didn’t yet exist during the Silurian ... not a plant, animal, or fungus.

We may study the stars, indeed, with tne aid of fossils in terrestrial rocks ... J urassic Triasic Permian Penrsylvanian Mis,ippian Devonian Silurian Ordovician Cambrian Latc Early Palco ...

ders of plants and animals—changes which are comprehended ... a great change in the fossils is noticed—as, for instance, in passing from primary rocks to secondary or from secondary to ...

The fossil’s discovery in Brazil shows that ants have been around for longer than once thought. This insect impaled its prey ...

The Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...