This football-sized creature could grind its teeth like a hard-core plant-eater, back before that was really a thing — and it ...

A new fossil discovery in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, is changing scientific views on early plant-eating animals. Named ...

During photosynthesis, trees convert the carbon dioxide to sugars and in doing so produce oxygen as a biproduct, which is vital for life on Earth. “Trees draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and ...

For 165 years, the giant fossil Prototaxites taiti puzzled scientists. Standing 26 feet tall, it may belong to an unknown branch of multicellular life, reshaping our understanding of early terrestrial ...

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

Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.

Dunkleosteus is often presented as one of the most formidable predators of the Devonian seas, yet much of its biology remains uncertain. Fossil evidence consists mainly of armored head plates, leaving ...

Ancient lungfish fossils show how early fish evolved features that eventually allowed animals to leave the water and adapt to life on land.

We discovered that Prototaxites, a 400 million year old giant fossil organism once thought to be a type of fungi, was most ...

Neither plant, nor animal, nor fungus: science finally discovers what these 8-metre giants were - ...

A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.