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Scientists in Scotland uncover a new form of life from 410 million years ago, challenging long-held beliefs about early Earth ...

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

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

In 1963, researchers unearthed two Stone Age skeletons that were buried in an embraced position in a cave in Italy. Now, DNA testing has revealed that one of them had a rare genetic condition.

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 ...

The human body has always been crowded with microscopic passengers, from bacteria to viruses and fungi. Over the past two ...

Scientists discovered a new form of life that stands 26 feet tall in what's been described as a huge breakthrough.

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 ...

Harvey, Austin. "Scientists May Have Identified A New Form Of Life That’s Neither Plant Nor Fungus." AllThatsInteresting.com, January 23, 2026, ...

Salameh, E. and Tarawneh, A. (2026) Tectonic Structures and Their Consequential Nontectonic Deformations —The Case of the ...