Scientists then leaned towards it being a giant fungus, but the classification remained uncertain. A 2007 study even ...

Previously believed to be plant or fungi, these giant organisms may have been a now-extinct fourth type of life.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, mysterious life forms called Prototaxites towered toward the sky. Believed to be the first giant organisms to thrive on dry land, some species of Prototaxites ...

"We report that Prototaxites taiti was the largest organism in the Rhynie ecosystem and its anatomy was fundamentally ...

In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.