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

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 ...

Since Prototaxites were discovered in the fossil record in 1843, scientists have debated whether they were early land plants, ...

Tree of Life,' a Sitka spruce in Olympic National Park, is nearing the end of its life on the Washington coast.

Researchers in the UK have now suggested in a report that is yet to be peer reviewed that there's a very good reason these oddities don't fit neatly on the tree of life – they belong to a branch all ...

The giant sequoia is a snow tree, Sillett says ... of cambium that flowed between trunk and limbs like a river of life. I thought: What an amazing place. Then I thought: What an amazing creature.