Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

FISHERSVILLE, Va. ( WHSV /Gray News) -A fossil found by a landowner in Virginia has left even the Smithsonian completely stumped. Three years ago, Taylor Endres was tilling her garden when she found ...

Mining excavations during the 1980s and earlier uncovered and exposed fine-grained sedimentary rocks containing well-preserved fossil plants and insects. These have already been studied by many ...