Protaxites: The discovery that could change the understanding of life

An artist’s impression of what the long extinct species of prototaxites may have looked like. (Matt Hunpage/PA) -

Scientists may have uncovered an entirely new “evolutionary branch of life” that towered to more than 8 metres and lived more than 360 million years ago.

First discovered almost two centuries ago, the fascinating fossils of prototaxites may transform scientists' understanding of the evolution of our world.