New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct ...

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

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

Scientists from the UK recently conducted a detailed re-examination of a fossilized Prototaxites species found in ...

Since Prototaxites were discovered in the fossil record in 1843, scientists have debated whether they were early land plants, giant fungi, algae, or a whole new kingdom of life. Some of these options ...

Thousands of US Department of Agriculture employees, including food inspectors and disease-sniffing-dog trainers, remain out ...

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

Prototaxites, the first giant organism to live on land, have long been thought to have been some sort of plant, fungus or algae. Now, a new research paper ...

Species that exhibit deep-sea gigantism include ... “Immense pressure and frigid temperatures, while insurmountable obstacles to land lovers like humans, allow some animals to have very slow ...

Before he received his termination notice, he says, Copeland had just spent several months training the only dog stationed in Florida capable of detecting the Giant African land snail ... to two other ...

Land mammals responded in kind ... which were fast ruling the waters in the absence of the giant mosasaurs and plesiosaurs of the Cretaceous. Squid and other soft-bodied cephalopods replaced ...