The study, a preprint posted to BioarXiv, focuses on prototaxites, an extinct group of organisms which existed from the Late Silurian (between 443 and 420 million years ago) and the Late Devonian ...

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

entirely extinct group of eukaryotes.” Maybe Prototaxites was a fun guy if you got to know him, but he just didn’t fit in with the fungi.

A bizarre ancient organism previously thought to be a giant fungus may actually belong to an undiscovered branch of the tree of life that mysteriously went extinct. Prototaxites, which lived ...

«We report that Prototaxites 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 that ...

"We report that Prototaxites taiti was the largest organism in the Rhynie ecosystem and its anatomy was fundamentally distinct from all known extant or extinct fungi," the researchers wrote in the ...

New discovery suggests Prototaxites may belong to an extinct, unknown lineage Prototaxites, a mysterious ancient fossil, has puzzled scientists for over a century due to its unusual biology.

Discovered over 160 years ago, Prototaxites fossils continue to divide scientists. These 400-million-year-old structures may belong to a completely extinct branch of life. Prototaxites in an Early ...

More research into Prototaxites fossils needs to be done to determine if they were fungi or a completely different type of life, and what caused them to go extinct millions of years ago.

entirely extinct group of eukaryotes.” Maybe Prototaxites was a fun guy if you got to know him, but he just didn’t fit in with the fungi. Elizabeth Rayne is a creature who writes. Her work has ...