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

Called 'prototaxites', this lifeform lived on Earth around 410 million years ago, before becoming extinct 360 million years ...

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 ...

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

Long before forests of tall trees covered the planet, Earth was ruled by something stranger: towering, trunk like organisms ...

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

A towering 26-foot-tall fossil, first discovered in Scotland, has been confirmed by scientists as a completely new form of ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of ...

Metabolites in mouse and human breath correlate to gut-microbe populations and might be helpful in diagnosing disease.

Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of fraud in 2022 and reported to prison to begin serving her 11-year sentence in 2023 ...

Marine microbes cooperate far more than they compete, reshaping how scientists understand ocean ecosystems and climate ...