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

New research suggests this is because Prototaxites don’t have a place in the tree of life as we know it—they belonged to a previously unknown branch. Researchers from the United Kingdom ...

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

Like the branches, twigs and leaves of a tree ... They also examined Gustav Klimt’s 1909 painting “L’Arbre de Vie” (“Tree of Life”). They found that the trees depicted in the artworks, even when ...

Like the branches, twigs and leaves of a tree ... They also examined Gustav Klimt’s 1909 painting “L’Arbre de Vie” (“Tree of Life”). They found that the trees depicted in the artworks ...