A "strange" prehistoric plant species is the lone representative of a mysterious group of organisms that no longer exists, scientists have discovered. The first evidence of the species—in the form of ...

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 ...

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.

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Some new developments have been noted in a fossil older than a dinosaur. For the study, researchers evaluated a fossil discovered in Brazil, which was explained in detail within the journal Review of ...

The Early Cretaceous period witnessed a remarkable diversity of gnetalean plants, with fossil discoveries shedding new light on the morphology, ecology and evolutionary history of this enigmatic group ...