A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.

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The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Scientists analyzing 443-million-year-old Scottish fossils have uncovered the early evidence that some of the first groups of vertebrates possessed surprisingly advanced eyes and traces of bone, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s impression of what the long extinct species of prototaxites may have looked like. (Matt Hunpage/PA) A fossil of ...

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A fossil dating back 410 million years has been identified as a new form of life as it goes on display at a Scots museum. The 26 feet organism was discovered in a sedimentary deposit near the village ...

A fossil from a lifeform which once towered over the ancient landscape is to go on display at the National Museum of Scotland. Prototaxites, which grew to more than eight metres tall, belonged to an ...