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The First Great Forests Were Neither Fungus Nor Plant, But Lifeforms Without Living DescendantsIt's not obscene, because this is not an artist's reconstruction of an animal, or even a fungus, but an extinct lineage.

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The First Great Forests Were Neither Fungus Nor Plant, But Lifeforms Without Living DescendantsIt's not obscene, because this is not an artist's reconstruction of an animal, or even a fungus, but an extinct lineage.
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The First Great Forests Were Neither Fungus Nor Plant, But Lifeforms Without Living Descendants

clock-iconJanuary 22, 2026
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Meet Sue The Fossil, An “Inside-out, Legless, Headless Wonder” That Dates Back 444 Million YearsThe fossil Keurbos susanae - or Sue - in the rock.

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Meet Sue The Fossil, An “Inside-out, Legless, Headless Wonder” That Dates Back 444 Million YearsThe fossil Keurbos susanae - or Sue - in the rock.
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Meet Sue The Fossil, An “Inside-out, Legless, Headless Wonder” That Dates Back 444 Million Years

clock-iconApril 11, 2025
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The First Giant Land Organism May Require A New Branch On The Tree Of LifePrototaxites loganii from the middle Devonian Bellvale Sandstone. Fossils of smaller relatives of these first land giants suggest they were all part of a lineage unrelated to any that survives today.

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The First Giant Land Organism May Require A New Branch On The Tree Of LifePrototaxites loganii from the middle Devonian Bellvale Sandstone. Fossils of smaller relatives of these first land giants suggest they were all part of a lineage unrelated to any that survives today.
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The First Giant Land Organism May Require A New Branch On The Tree Of Life

clock-iconMarch 25, 2025
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Giant Viruses With Ancient Origins Lurk In Yellowstone's Hot Springs Steam rises from the Firehole Spring geothermal hotspring at Yellowstone National Park in the US

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Giant Viruses With Ancient Origins Lurk In Yellowstone's Hot Springs Steam rises from the Firehole Spring geothermal hotspring at Yellowstone National Park in the US
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Giant Viruses With Ancient Origins Lurk In Yellowstone's Hot Springs

clock-iconMay 13, 2024
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Human-Driven Extinction Is Eliminating Entire Branches Of The Tree Of LifeBottom-up view of a tree with many winding branches and green leaves.

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Human-Driven Extinction Is Eliminating Entire Branches Of The Tree Of LifeBottom-up view of a tree with many winding branches and green leaves.
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Human-Driven Extinction Is Eliminating Entire Branches Of The Tree Of Life

clock-iconSeptember 20, 2023
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If Evolution Is Real, Why Are There Still Monkeys Around Today?A popular exposition of the principal points of human ontogeny and phylogeny / From the German of

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If Evolution Is Real, Why Are There Still Monkeys Around Today?A popular exposition of the principal points of human ontogeny and phylogeny / From the German of
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If Evolution Is Real, Why Are There Still Monkeys Around Today?

clock-iconJuly 5, 2023
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“Microbial Lions” Are The Newest Branch Of The Tree Of Lifean image of microbes under the microscope is overlaid with pouncing lions.

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“Microbial Lions” Are The Newest Branch Of The Tree Of Lifean image of microbes under the microscope is overlaid with pouncing lions.
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“Microbial Lions” Are The Newest Branch Of The Tree Of Life

clock-iconDecember 8, 2022
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Researchers Just Added An Astonishing TWENTY New Phyla To The Tree Of Lifearticle image

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Researchers Just Added An Astonishing TWENTY New Phyla To The Tree Of Lifearticle image
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Researchers Just Added An Astonishing TWENTY New Phyla To The Tree Of Life

clock-iconSeptember 12, 2017

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508-Million-Year-Old Fossil "Ice Cream Cone With Tentacles" Finally Classifiedarticle image

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508-Million-Year-Old Fossil "Ice Cream Cone With Tentacles" Finally Classifiedarticle image
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508-Million-Year-Old Fossil "Ice Cream Cone With Tentacles" Finally Classified

clock-iconJanuary 12, 2017

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New Tree Of Life Published - And Most Of The Species On It Are A Complete Mystery To Usarticle image

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New Tree Of Life Published - And Most Of The Species On It Are A Complete Mystery To Usarticle image
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New Tree Of Life Published - And Most Of The Species On It Are A Complete Mystery To Us

clock-iconApril 12, 2016

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Deep Sea “Purple Sock” Finally Placed On The Evolutionary Treearticle image

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Deep Sea “Purple Sock” Finally Placed On The Evolutionary Treearticle image
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Deep Sea “Purple Sock” Finally Placed On The Evolutionary Tree

clock-iconFebruary 4, 2016

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New Study Suggests Viruses Are Alive, And That They Share An Ancestor With Modern Cellsarticle image

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New Study Suggests Viruses Are Alive, And That They Share An Ancestor With Modern Cellsarticle image
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New Study Suggests Viruses Are Alive, And That They Share An Ancestor With Modern Cells

clock-iconSeptember 28, 2015

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Most Comprehensive Tree Of Life For 2.3 Million Species Createdarticle image

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Most Comprehensive Tree Of Life For 2.3 Million Species Createdarticle image
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Most Comprehensive Tree Of Life For 2.3 Million Species Created

clock-iconSeptember 21, 2015

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Scientists Have Discovered THIRTY FIVE New Bacterial Phylaarticle image

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Scientists Have Discovered THIRTY FIVE New Bacterial Phylaarticle image
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Scientists Have Discovered THIRTY FIVE New Bacterial Phyla

clock-iconJune 18, 2015