Biological systems, once thought too chaotic for quantum effects, may be quietly leveraging quantum mechanics to process ...

This legacy of color and Mexican Modernism inspired this year’s NYBG orchid show and accompanying photo exhibit, running ...

Prototaxites fossils continue to divide scientists. These 400-million-year-old structures may belong to a completely extinct ...

In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of fungi — ...

Packaging is one of the key sustainability dilemmas in food. What different types of packaging have the best sustainability ...

So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that ...

In a world that looked nothing like today’s, long before the rise of the dinosaurs or even the first trees, giant living ...

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

Prototaxites, the first giant organism to live on land, have long been thought to have been some sort of plant, fungus or algae. Now, a new research paper ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...