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

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

Since Prototaxites were discovered in the fossil record in 1843, scientists have debated whether they were early land plants, ...

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

The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) is a tree that shall for evermore be immortalized as a true forest giant of the ...

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

The largest living thing on the planet is not a whale or any other animal you might expect. It is a giant fungus that kills anything in its path, currently taking up more than three square miles ...

430 million years ago, towering life-forms known as Prototaxites emerged from the ground, reaching heights of up to 26 feet and growing trunks up to 3 feet wide. When the first Prototaxites fossil ...

But trees didn’t yet ... this really was a fungus, since they appeared to be evidence that Prototaxites behaved like fungi by ...