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

Since Prototaxites were discovered in the fossil record in 1843, scientists have debated whether they were early land plants, ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

They observed much more diversity between different species of Rhodophyte, which evolved multicellularity first and ...

Scientists discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form ...

Plants, animals, or of another kingdom entirely ... long thought by scientists to be the first multicellular animals, had predecessors. Debate continues, however, as to what became of the first ...

You see, bryophytes were the first plants to start growing on land instead of in water. Before that, there was pretty much no multicellular life on land at all —animals all lived in water ...

For instance, by definition every multicellular organism possesses multiple cells that remain associated following cell division. But while plant and animal species generate at least a dozen ...

Cells are the smallest unit of life. Cells in multicellular plants and animals are arranged into tissues, organs and organ systems. Cells. Tissues. Organs. Organ systems. And the organism itself.