The discovery, in a bizarre animal not closely related to birds, could change how scientists think about the origin of ...

Protein remnants in fossil enamel reveal new ways to study evolution. These molecules stretch our view of molecular ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

The weed is notoriously difficult to eradicate and has become an increasingly common issue on housing developments across the UK ...

Local News Native plant event at Hagerman Fossil Bed Monument The event will feature interpretive exhibits highlighting plants that thrived in the region 3-4 million years ago during the Pliocene era.

This Bizarre Fossil Isn’t a Plant, Animal, or Fungus—Turns Out It’s a Whole New Form of LifePrototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since ...

This film explores the evolution of vascular plants, particularly ferns, through the study of ancient plant fossils. It highlights the anatomical features and adaptations that allowed early plants ...

An 'alien plant' fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

A new fossil discovery sheds new light on a 47-million-year-old "alien plant" species that is the only example ever found of its kind.

A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of ...

A peculiar cluster of fossils was retrieved from the Green River Formation in Utah back in 1969 – the 47-million-year-old leaves of an “alien plant” that was thought to be an unusual member ...