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fromFuturism
4 days ago
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Scientists Intrigued by Unfamiliar Life Form

Prototaxites, spire-shaped organisms from over 400 million years ago, have internal structures inconsistent with known kingdoms and may represent a new lifeform.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 week ago
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Mystery tower fossils may be a whole new kind of life

Prototaxites represents a previously unknown, distinct branch of life that dominated terrestrial landscapes before trees, separate from fungi and plants.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Fresh bone analysis makes case for earliest ancestor of humankind', but doubts remain

In the murky first chapters of the human story is an unknown ancestor that made the profound transition from walking on all fours to standing up tall, an act that came to define us. The odds of stumbling on the fossilised evidence of such an evolutionary prize are slim, but in new research, scientists argue that an ape-like animal that lived in Africa 7m years ago is the best contender yet.
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fromNature
6 months ago

This ancient mega-predator was built for stealth

Temnodontosaurus was adapted for stealth-based predation as revealed by fossil analysis.
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