Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fossil from a lifeform which once towered over the ancient landscape is to go on display at the National Museum of Scotland.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A life reconstruction of Prototaxites taiti growing in the 407-million-year-old Rhynie chert ecosystem. (CREDIT: M. Humpage, ...

Scientists Discover a New Form of Life Standing 26 Feet Tall ...

All animals on Earth share a common ancestor. Trace back the history of any creature from humans to slugs, and you’ll eventually be able to follow all of the branches on the animal tree of life back ...

Scientists may have uncovered an entirely new “evolutionary branch of life” that towered to more than 8 metres and lived more than 360 million years ago. First discovered almost two centuries ago, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A new study claims that Prototaxites, which have defied ...

A fossil from a lifeform which once towered over the ancient landscape is to go on display at the National Museum of Scotland. Prototaxites, which grew to more than eight metres tall, belonged to an ...