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

A new fossil discovery sheds new light on a 47-million-year-old "alien plant" species that is the only example ever found of ...

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

For decades, scientists have been fascinated by a 47-million-year-old fossil unearthed in Utah's Green River Formation.

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 ...

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 gathered the fossil 55 years ago in a rich fossil bed near the ghost town of Rainbow, Utah. They named the leaves, as the fossil left them nothing else, Othniophyton elongatum ...