Near an ancient ghost town in Utah, a unique fossil plant is puzzling researchers. Among all known living or extinct plants, it defies any classification. In 1969, paleontologists discovered fossil ...

Steven Manchester, curator of paleobotany at the Florida Museum of Natural History and Utah fossil expert, came across an unidentified plant fossil while visiting the University of California ...

A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of ...

An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

Newly discovered fossils matched up with a mysterious “alien plant” species found in 1969 and brought it to clearer life. It’s even stranger than scientists initially thought it was.

A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a ...

Paleontologists discovered the fossil of an “alien plant” 50 years ago in Utah and have been unable to relate it to modern or extinct plants. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons.