An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently ...

Fossilized plant remains discovered near a Utah ghost town have stumped scientists, who are unable to link them to any modern ...

A MIND-boggling discovery has left scientists even more puzzled about one of the most mysterious fossils ever found. A ...

The diversity within plant families can be remarkable. For example, diverse species such as poison ivy, cashews and mangoes ...

The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of the ginseng family, as scientists ...

The fossilized plant leaves, Othniophyton elongatum, translates to ‘alien plant’ in English and was discovered in an ...

In 1969, paleobotanists identified fossilized leaves of the extinct species Othniophyton elongatum, which translates to ...

Paleontologists discovered the fossil of an "alien plant" 50 years ago in Utah and have been unable to relate it to modern or ...

Researchers first spotted the fossilised leaves of the species Othniophyton elongatum, which translates to “alien plant”, in Rainbow in Utah in 1969. The former mining community is now a ghost ...

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. It is so ...