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

Scientists are suggesting there may be a brand new type of life — or, at least, that one existed back in the day. In a new, ...

About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

He called the organism Prototaxites, meaning “first conifer.” The name stuck, even though the fossil didn’t quite match any ...

What is the true longest-living life-form? Tortoises, whales, and trees are all likely to be the winners. However, some microscopic species are the answer for this. They have been alive since ...

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

The origin of life on Earth stands as one of the great mysteries of science. Various answers have been proposed, all of which remain unverified. To find out if we are alone in the galaxy, we will need ...

Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history, starting with the planet's creation about 4.5 billion years ago and ending with the emergence of complex, multicelled life-forms ...

Our living planet, as Charles Darwin wrote in On the Origin of Species, is one of “endless forms most beautiful”. But go back a couple of billion years and things would have looked very different.