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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A group of scientists claims to have brought back to life a species of wolf that went extinct more than 10,000 years ago - but is it true? Here's all we know about the three pups created by ...

taiti was vastly different from the fungi that grew alongside it — and indeed, was distinct from all known fungi, extinct or otherwise. Specifically, the prototaxites sample did not contain any chitin ...

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 ...

taiti was vastly different from the fungi that grew alongside it — and indeed, was distinct from all known fungi, extinct or otherwise. Specifically, the prototaxites sample did not contain any ...

«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 ...