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

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

The authors conducted a review of the features they found in P. taiti, and compared them with surviving branches of life and reported each surviving lineage has at least one key feature that is ab ...

And he’s not stopping there — the scientist claims the sacred Tree of Life itself ... arranged in a way that creates several parallel branches extending outward from the center line, creating ...

Indeed, the most basic postulate of evolutionary theory is that the same general phenomenon of descent from common ancestry applies to both the most diverse branches of the tree of life and the ...

From ancient roots to modern branches, I’m putting my knowledge of the Tree of Life to the test. Let’s see how deep this goes ...

Humans are driving the loss of entire branches of the “Tree of Life”, according to a new study published last Monday which warns of the threat of a sixth mass extinction. “The extinction ...