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.

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 ...

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 ...

Paleontologists are excited by a new "alien plant" fossil that was discovered just outside an abandoned town in Utah. The fossil is unlike anything that has been found thus far and has scientists ...

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. Researchers first ...

NANJING -- Chinese scientists have discovered a tiny plant species dating back about 410 million years in Duyun city, Southwest China's Guizhou province, offering new insights into the process 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.