Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have been like. As an organism that appeared to grow up through Earth’s crust in ...
Some of the world’s most mysterious fossils, soft-bodied creatures preserved in coarse sandstone, owe their survival to an ...
Paleontologists have revealed a "remarkable" prehistoric creature that has been "spectacularly preserved" by fool's gold—a common name for a substance called iron pyrite. The newly identified species, ...