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 ...

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 fossils included plant imprints, animal tracks, and pieces of evidence of water bodies that were well-preserved between the layers of solidified sand clay beneath the ice. The site was exposed ...

"Terrestrial plants in their early stages of development likely relied on evolving diverse survival strategies to overcome ...

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 ...

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 ...

A mysterious fossil unearthed in 1969 in Utah was dubbed an "alien plant," hinting at its uniqueness and sparking decades of intrigue among scientists. The fossil, named Othniophyton elongatum ...

Fossilised shells are also body fossils. Other fossilised signs of a plant or animal are called trace fossils. Dinosaur trace fossils include footprints, imprints of their skin or feathers, and poo - ...

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 "plant ...