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

Most scientists made Prototaxites out to be a sort of humungous fungus, but the field as a whole was never certain. That, however, may have just changed. Petrified slices of P. taiti had a light ...

A bizarre ancient organism previously thought to be a giant fungus may actually belong to an undiscovered branch of the tree of life that mysteriously went extinct. Prototaxites, which lived ...

For over a hundred years after the discovery of the first Prototaxites fossils ... Fungi hyphae form mycelium that connects trees and plants in an underground fungal highway — called the wood ...

That argument was never truly settled. Most scientists made Prototaxites out to be a sort of humungous fungus, but the field as a whole was never certain. That, however, may have just changed. Back in ...

Possible prey of the carnivorous fungus: a nematode fossilized in amber close to the carnivorous fungus. This image relates to a study by A.R. Schmidt at Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin in Berlin ...