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

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

withamii. When the fossil tree was alive it’s thought that it would have had fern-like fronds that were similar to this example of Sphenopteris foliage The specimen was originally thought to be an ...

Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric ...

"I mean there's no real frequency, but it's rare. And this could be a one-of-a-kind fossil in the tree of life … of evolution of amphibians, to reptiles, to mammals to us." On his book's ...

The ancient pieces of hardened tree ... on what life on Earth used to look like – exceptionally impressive when you see my best estimation of a camel. Read the full story. Fossil Footprints ...

A 62-million-year-old mammal fossil reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, plant-based diet, and evolutionary ties to primates ...

In New Brunswick, Canada, researchers discovered fossils of a prehistoric ... pieces of evidence of a tree growing beneath a thick forest canopy, suggesting that life in the Early Carboniferous ...

If a fossil has no context, then it cannot be placed in the Tree of Life, it cannot be evolutionarily linked to living organisms, and, therefore, it can do nothing to further our understanding of ...

If further fossil finds confirm that Danuvius and perhaps other ancient tree-dwelling apes stood upright, “it would show that our [human] lineage never did go through a hunched-over stage of ...

Deep Tree: Students explore an interactive tree of life and trace the shared ancestry ... and provide assessment on topics like cladograms, fossil evidence of evolution, DNA and genetics ...

Little kids are fascinated by fossils and the idea of ancient life. I like to say I was one ... you could follow every individual cell in a tree branch from the bark to the center pith.