A peculiar fossil discovery has raised eyebrows in the scientific community, prompting researchers to rethink the boundaries ...

Analysis includes mitochondria and plastids to leverage eukaryotic fossil data. Land plants and animals are shown for time reference. Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their ...

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it might represent a whole new branch.

Microbial organisms dominate life on Earth, but tracing their early history and ... To best utilize the fossil record, they leveraged fossils of eukaryotes, whose mitochondria evolved from ...

They believe it came from an entirely extinct lineage of eukaryotes ... this changes our understanding of early life on land. The Rhynie chert, a fossil-rich deposit in Scotland where P.

Recent research suggests they may represent an entirely extinct and previously unknown lineage of Eukaryotes ... well-preserved fossil remains dating back to the Early Devonian period.

New Species Revealed After 25 Years of Study on 'Inside Out' Fossil -- And Named After ... thousands of generations of evolution in the ... Earliest Days of Earth's Formation Mar. 26, 2025 ...

A prehistoric hell ant that lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ago had an unusual way to kill its prey and sheds new ...

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...