Poppies are often short-lived perennial plants but can grow to over a meter tall with flowers up to 15 centimetres across.

He called the organism Prototaxites, meaning “first conifer.” The name stuck, even though the fossil didn’t quite match any ...

Nearly a third of fungi species assessed by international conservation experts were found to be at risk of extinction from ...

The IUCN warns that over 400 fungi species face extinction due to deforestation, pollution, and climate change.

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

Deforestation, farming and climate-fueled fires are driving increasing threats to fungi, the lifeblood of most plants on ...

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Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

In July 2023, heavy rains continued in southern Sri Lanka for days, soaking the lush greenery of the village of Hapugala in ...

Scientists discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form ...

An international team including engineers from Princeton has devised a way to watch, in stunning detail, as the hollow ...

A new study reveals plants, fungi, bacteria, protists, and even some viruses deploy venom-like mechanisms, similar to that of ...