Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have ...

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

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

Learn about Prototaxites, a bizarre group of prehistoric organisms that fall within an unknown lineage of extinct life.

Giant mystery fossil reveals secrets of whole new form of life that no longer exists - Prototaxites belonged to an ‘entirely extinct evolutionary branch of life‘ ...

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

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

Towering Prototaxites ruled Earth before trees—and they may have been a form of life entirely new to science ...

Fossil of dead-end branch of life which became extinct to go on display - The prototaxites fossil, which is about 410 million ...

Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...

Researchers say the fossil found in Aberdeenshire is neither plant nor fungus as previously thought.

A 410 million year-old fossil from Aberdeenshire which scientists have identified as being a ‘new’ form of life, distinct from plants or fungi, has been added to the collections of National Museums ...