This swimmer accidentally discovered a colony of gelatinous masses attached to a submerged tree in the lake at his cottage. He was following a large bass when he came upon what he thought was a ...

The chance of being in the right place at the right time has led to a significant geological finding at Paint Hill Farm, a few miles outside of downtown Southern ...

More research into Prototaxites fossils needs to be done to determine if they were fungi or a completely different type of life, and what caused them to go extinct millions of years ago.

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He enjoys visiting the La Brea Tar Pits, so he can watch the paleontologists through the glass windows, working in the Fossil Lab and imagining himself there one day. Today, he asked me, “Is there a ...

When the first Prototaxites fossil was unearthed in 1843, it was mistaken for an ancient rotting conifer. But trees didn’t yet exist during the Silurian period, so what exactly was this thing ...

With today’s new No Man’s Sky update, titled Relics, there’s now an even more compelling reason to get digging, because you can now unearth fossils. That’s right, if seeing No Man’s Sky ...

Humankind’s defining testament will be dramatically different from the skeletons, bones and other biological traces that inform today’s fossil record, according to authors Sarah Gabbott and ...

Fossil of Prototaxites, an extinct “plant”- Photo taken at Senckenberg Museum of Frankfurt. Credit: Ghedoghedo – CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Scientists have discovered a 400-million-year-old ...

Plastic bottles, smartphones, chicken bones – and the wider debris of everyday life – are tipped to outlast human civilisation and become the defining fossils of our age. Fossils are usually ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Newly discovered Late Miocene fossil sites in the Central Anatolian Volcanic Province offer crucial insights into mammalian evolution. The presence of volcanic ...