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The First Giant Land Organism May Require A New Branch On The Tree Of Life
Since Prototaxites were discovered in the fossil record in 1843, scientists have debated whether they were early land plants, ...
This Bizarre Fossil Isn’t a Plant, Animal, or Fungus—Turns Out It’s a Whole New Form of Life
Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...
This small tree was introduced after fungus killed the American giants | Mystery Plant
Chestnuts belong to the family named Fagaceae ... that seems to be mostly impervious to the deadly fungus mentioned above. It ...