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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, ...
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This giant life form resembles nothing else known 🌎
Prototaxites fossils continue to divide scientists. These 400-million-year-old structures may belong to a completely extinct ...
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Giant, Ancient Life Form Doesn’t Fit Into Any Known Branch of Life
New research suggests this is because Prototaxites don’t have a place in the tree of life as we know it—they belonged to a previously unknown branch. Researchers from the United Kingdom ...
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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 ...
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Trees in art, as well as life, often follow simple mathematical rules, study finds
Like the branches, twigs and leaves of a tree ... They also examined Gustav Klimt’s 1909 painting “L’Arbre de Vie” (“Tree of Life”). They found that the trees depicted in the artworks, even when ...