Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have ...

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

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

Delving into the fascinating world of paleontology, we uncover the stories of species that lived through Earth’s mass extinctions. These hardy survivors reveal much about the nature of life on Earth ...

Giant mystery fossil reveals secrets of whole new form of life that no longer exists - Prototaxites belonged to an ‘entirely extinct evolutionary branch of life‘ ...

The prototaxites fossil, which is about 410 million years old, was found near the village of Rhynie in Aberdeenshire.

More than 250 million years ago, life on Earth faced its most devastating crisis — a global event so severe that it wiped out nearly three-quarters of life on land and an even larger share in the ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Stewart Edie, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) About 66 million years ago – ...