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The First Giant Land Organism May Require A New Branch On The Tree Of Life
Since Prototaxites were discovered in the fossil record in 1843, scientists have debated whether they were early land plants, ...
Scientists baffled at mysterious ancient creature that doesn't fit on the tree of life as we know it
An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...
A genetic tree as a movie: Moving beyond the still portrait of ancestry
University of Michigan researchers have developed a statistical method that can be used for such wide-ranging applications as ...
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‘Ancestor Of All Animals’ Discovered In 555-Million-Year-Old Australian Fossils
University of California, RiversideMany experts didn’t think such tiny prehistoric fossils would ever be found. Fortunately, modern technology proved them wrong. Researchers have uncovered evidence of ...