The botanical garden aims to ensure effective protection of 95 percent of south China's rare and endangered plants, and to ...

Scientists scooped sand from a riverbed in Thailand and found two nymphs of rare mayfly species not seen in 22 years, a study said. Photo from Kwanboon and Boonsoong (2025) Knee-deep in a river of ...

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 ...

Prototaxites did not. The scientists conclude that Prototaxites likely belonged to “a previously undescribed, entirely extinct group of eukaryotes.” In the grand tree of life, that’s a big ...

entirely extinct group of eukaryotes,” the authors note. With no known taxonomic group sharing its combination of anatomy, chemistry, and lifestyle, Prototaxites stands apart. It was a eukaryote – ...

For many years, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been hellbent on sending humans to the surface of Mars. With the help of his space company's massive Starship rocket, the mercurial entrepreneur is hoping to ...

The team concluded that Prototaxites cannot be placed in any known group of life—fungi, plant, animal, or algae. They believe it came from an entirely extinct lineage of eukaryotes, a broad ...

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 ...

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 ...

A painting of what Prototaxites may have looked like, 400 million years ago. | Credit: Painting by Mary Parrish, National Museum of Natural History. Scientists have discovered that a bizarre ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — In Uganda's Mbale district, famous for its production of arabica coffee, a plague of plastic bags locally known as buveera is creeping beyond the city. It's a problem that has ...