Sandy Hetherington: Exciting #FossilFriday as our preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social was picked up by @newscientist.com! You can read the prepint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Exciting #FossilFriday as our preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social was picked up by @newscientist.com! You can read the prepint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Prototaxites was an extinct lineage of multicellular terrestrial eukaryotes

Prototaxites was the first giant organism to live on the terrestrial surface, reaching sizes of 8 metres in the Early Devonian. However, its taxonomic assignment has been debated for over 165 years1-7...

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- New Scientist newscientist.com · Mar 21, 2025
  A bizarre ancient organism previously thought to be a giant fungus may actually belong to an undiscovered branch on the tree of life that mysteriously went extinct.
  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 mysterious life form that went extinct long ago
  
  newscientist.com
Mar 21, 2025 18:18
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