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4 days ago

Scientists Intrigued by Unfamiliar Life Form

It's a plant! It's a fungus! It's... an entirely new type of lifeform hitherto unknown to science? That appears to be the case for a puzzling, spire-shaped organism that lived over 400 million years ago, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances. After analyzing its internal structures, the authors argue that the mystifying ancient beings known as prototaxites don't belong to any of the existing biological kingdoms.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 week ago

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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