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.

Kobayashi and his colleagues christened the new therizinosaur, Duonychus tsogtbaatari. The genus name means “double claw”, ...

Travel blogger Julie, from Ireland, had been visiting the Philippines when she squatted in the crystal clear waters and accidentally sat on a huge transparent box jellyfish ...

A parasitic wasp that flew among dinosaurs had a Venus flytrap-like contraption on its abdomen that likely allowed it to ...

The problem—it also belonged with nothing else. It was apparently not a plant, animal, or fungus. “Having found no support for the most widely held view that Prototaxites was fungal, we next reviewed ...

The terrifying moment an influencer was stung by the world's most venomous animal was caught on camera. Julie, from Ireland, was swimming in the shallows of a remote island in the Philippines when she ...

Malta woke up to a bizarre surprise this morning – large animal-themed graffiti sprayed across some of the island’s most ...

A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism ... This was actually part of the animal.” Vilhelmsen and his colleagues ...

paleontologists working in the Fayum desert of Egypt found the bones of a bizarre mammal that lived among the ancient wetlands about 36 million years ago. Named Moeritherium, the animal stood a ...