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

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.

In 1969, scientists found the remains of a fossilized plant at Utah's Green River Formation and named it "Othniophyton ...

Even after examining both modern and extinct plant families, no match has been found, reports WPTech. This mysterious plant ...

Fossil hunting has always been stubbornly low ... specimens at what is now Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta. This Utah giant, though, was clearly different from its Canadian cousins.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s even stranger than scientists initially thought it was. 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 ...

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 ...

The diversity within plant families can be remarkable. For example, diverse species such as poison ivy, cashews and mangoes all belong to the same extensive family. The extent of lost diversity within ...

Alien' 47-million-year-old plant fossil found in Utah has no known relatives. (photo credit: Florida Museum of Natural History/Jeff Gage) A recent study published in the journal Annals of Botany ...