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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Othniophyton elongatum fossil lacks links to known plant families Ancient plant found in Utah challenges classification attempts New fossil analysis reveals ...

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 ...

Scientists have just carried out an extensive study on two mysterious plant fossils discovered in Utah – but it’s left them with more questions than answers. Only two known specimens of Othniophyton ...

Paleontologists discovered the fossil of an “alien plant” 50 years ago in Utah and have been unable to relate it to modern or extinct plants. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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 ...