Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric ...

Paleontologists have uncovered a 444-million-year-old fossil with remarkably intact soft tissues, such as muscles, tendons, ...

Scientists discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form ...

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

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

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

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a mysterious life form that went extinct long ago ...

The prehistoric facial bones were found buried in 50 feet of mud and silt, and are believed to be 1.1 to 1.4 million years ...

The fossil was found in the Soom Shale ... of the era and so it remains a mystery how she fits into the evolutionary tree of life. Professor Sarah Gabbott from the University of Leicester School ...

University of California, RiversideMany experts didn’t think such tiny prehistoric fossils would ever be found. Fortunately, ...

A new species of fossil is 444 million years-old with soft insides perfectly preserved. Research 'ultramarathon' saw palaeontologist puzzled by bizarre fossil for 25 years.

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...