Tyrannoroter heberti fossil shows one of the earliest land animals to eat plants, changing what we know about how ...

New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution sheds light on the timelines and pathways of evolution of fungi, finding evidence of their influence on ancient terrestrial ecosystems. The study, ...

Fungi live in all corners of the world. They live in soil, float in the air, and thrive in oceans. They recycle nutrients, form alliances with plants, and sometimes infect them with disease. Though ...

Roughly 234 million years ago, Earth’s continents were fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it was on the ...

A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a ...

Fossil evidence from North China suggests that some ecosystems may have recovered within just two million years of the end-Permian mass extinction, much sooner than previously thought. Tropical ...

Fungi’s evolutionary roots stretch far deeper than once believed — up to 1.4 billion years ago, long before plants or animals appeared. Using advanced molecular dating and gene transfer analysis, ...

The Rhynie chert, renowned for its exceptional preservation, offers an unparalleled window into early terrestrial ecosystems dating back to the Early Devonian period, over 400 million years ago. The ...

Clear fossil evidence can be found most of the five major groups – here we see a Dickinsonia fossil, providing evidence of ancient animal life. Professor Gergely J. Szöllősi, author on this study and ...