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

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

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

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

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

Eukaryotic cells form the foundation of complex, multicellular life, including apple trees, mushrooms, fish and humans ... they are still present in plants, fungi and some protists. These rigid ...

Scientists now recognize three domains, or superkingdoms, on the tree of life ... as well as fungi and protists," a paper on the Lake Huron sinkholes explains. Here, the bacteria create a purple ...

Skin flakes are hard to digest. It’s like eating hair, or feathers. So dust mites have powerful digestive enzymes to break the skin down. Those enzymes turn up in dust mite poop. And let’s just say ...

Researchers found that cooperative fluid dynamics between single-celled organisms may have driven the evolution of ...

Tree planting can be the most cost-effective way of removing carbon as long as careful choices are made about which type of trees to plant and where. Governments worldwide have committed to ...

Tree of life with one branch fewer In recent years, researchers have found growing indications of close links between Asgard archaea and eukaryotes, and that the latter may have evolved from the ...