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The largest life-form on land 400 million years ago was one that scientists can’t explain
Some 400 million years ago, long before dinosaurs or even trees had evolved, an enigmatic organism towered over…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/us/453047/
https://www.europesays.com/uk/716289/ Giant mystery fossil reveals secrets of whole new form of life that no longer exists #Aberdeenshire #DrSandyHetherington #fossil #LauraCooper #NationalMuseumOfScotland #NationalMuseums #NationalMuseumsScotland #Prototaxites #RhynieChert #SandyHetherington #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
Prototaxites
"About 400 million years ago—long before the first giant dinosaurs—a massive and strange organism up to 8 meters long loomed over the Lilliputian plants, mushrooms, and bugs that carpeted the land"
Not a fungus. Not a lichen. Not a plant ...
An unknown branch of multicellular life that went extinct
https://www.science.org/content/article/bizarre-400-million-year-old-fossil-was-unknown-life-form
#fossils #Prototaxites #newFormOfLife #evolutionaryBiology #Edinburgh #Scotland #paleobiology #RhynieChert
Unveiling Earth's Ancient Mysteries: The Astonishing Rhynie Chert #Fossils https://communities.springernature.com/posts/unveiling-earth-s-ancient-mysteries-the-astonishing-rhynie-chert-fossils
A fungal plant pathogen discovered in the #Devonian Rhynie Chert: Christine Strullu-Derrien et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43276-1
"One #fungal resident of the #RhynieChert, Paleopyrenomycites devonicus, stands out. Described as #Ascomycota, it colonized the ancient plant Asteroxylon mackiei. Yet, the precise role it played – as a saprotroph, parasite, or pathogen – remains a tantalizing mystery."