#prototaxites — Public Fediverse posts
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Let's go back to the best fossils and really look and think about what we are seeing and what it could mean with this organism.
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Bizarre #fossil may have been an entirely new type of #life. Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil #Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a mysterious life form that went extinct long ago. http://archive.today/2025.03.21-191932/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2473272-bizarre-fossil-may-have-been-an-entirely-new-type-of-life/ #science #palaeobotany #paleobotany #biology #botany #mycology #taxonomy