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.

A 47-million-year-old plant fossil, first unearthed in Utah’s Green River Formation decades ago, has revealed that the so-called "alien plant" is even stranger than anyone thought. 4 ...

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 ...

At the time, researchers believed that the plant belonged to the ginseng family, known scientifically as Araliaceae. But a recent assessment of a 47-million-year-old fossil collected from the same ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IN the present instalment of Prof. Seward's well-known text-book on fossil plants the interest of the subject may rightly be said to culminate. For this volume deals exclusively with the groups of ...

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.

The earliest known fossil of a terrestrial plant that shows almost its entire structure has gone on display for the first time in the world at an exhibition in Tokyo. Although it was discovered ...