Researchers have found nearly every plant part they need to trace the prehistoric history of a 47 million-year-old "alien ...

Found in rock samples retrieved in Australia more than 60 years ... physical evidence of early plant life gathered by scientists over the years. A fossil record of land plant origins from charophyte ...

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.

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 ...

Initially, researchers were forced to infer the species of this plant just by looking at the shape and vein patterns in the fossil leaves without flowers, fruits or branches. They thought it might ...

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 ...

It’s not causing panic! in the fossil record, but a 430-million-year-old mollusk discovery in Britain is a source of ...

Researchers compared the fossil to over 400 flowering plant families and found no match, suggesting it belongs to an unknown group. 'Alien' 47-million-year-old plant fossil found in Utah has no ...

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.

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 ...

TALCOTT, W. Va. (WVVA/Gray News) - While many kids might dig on the playground for buried treasure, very few find anything of note. However, two kids in West Virginia are the exception after ...

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 ...