For over a century, it was assumed that science had a handle on the big categories of life on Earth: plants, animals, fungi, and microorganisms were t.

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Huge 410-million-year-old fossil reveals unique life form no longer found on Earth ...

Scientists have potentially discovered a new evolutionary branch, Protaxites, that challenges our view of Earth's ancient ...

Called 'prototaxites', this lifeform lived on Earth around 410 million years ago, before becoming extinct 360 million years ...

A 410 million year-old fossil found in the North East of Scotland has been identified as a ‘new form of life’. Neither a plant nor fungi, the ‘Prototaxites’ discovered at Rhynie in Aberdeenshire has ...

A fossil of Prototaxites, a colossal lifeform that once towered over ancient landscapes, is set to go on display at the National Museum of Scotland. This enigmatic organism, which grew to more than ...

A fossil of Prototaxites, a colossal lifeform that once towered over ancient landscapes, is set to go on display at the National Museum of Scotland. This enigmatic organism, which grew to more than ...

A fossil dating back 410 million years has been identified as a new form of life as it goes on display at a Scots museum. The ...

A FOSSIL from a lifeform which once towered over the ancient landscape is to go on display at the National Museum of Scotland. Prototaxites, which grew to more than eight metres tall, belonged to an ...