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

Scientists then leaned towards it being a giant fungus, but the classification remained ... This challenges our understanding of the tree of life itself. Life on Earth is organized into three ...

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

They looked like huge tree trunks ... taiti was the largest organism in the Rainier ecosystem, and its anatomy was fundamentally different from all known living or extinct fungi Therefore, we conclude ...

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

That is, this tree is so big you can scarcely ... is about zoonotic diseases. Michael Nichols photographed California’s giant redwoods for the October 2009 issue.