Oh wow!
-
Oh wow! Amazing.
"A fossil of Prototaxites... is set to go on display at the National Museum of Scotland.
This enigmatic organism, which grew to more than eight metres tall, belonged to an "entirely extinct evolutionary branch of life", scientists believe. Initially thought to be a fungus, experts now suggest Prototaxites, which vanished approximately 360 million years ago, was neither plant nor fungus."
#Scotland #evolution #biology
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/prototaxites-scotland-fossil-fungus-life-b2905336.html -
Oh wow! Amazing.
"A fossil of Prototaxites... is set to go on display at the National Museum of Scotland.
This enigmatic organism, which grew to more than eight metres tall, belonged to an "entirely extinct evolutionary branch of life", scientists believe. Initially thought to be a fungus, experts now suggest Prototaxites, which vanished approximately 360 million years ago, was neither plant nor fungus."
#Scotland #evolution #biology
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/prototaxites-scotland-fossil-fungus-life-b2905336.html@patrickhadfield Wow!
-
@JackTheCat Indeed!!!
-
@JackTheCat Indeed!!!
@patrickhadfield Isn't science wonderful? Unfortunately we live in an era of a barely sentient potato rattling on about windmills.
-
@patrickhadfield Isn't science wonderful? Unfortunately we live in an era of a barely sentient potato rattling on about windmills.
@JackTheCat and in our back yard! When I was doing my my PhD - forty years ago - my supervisor took me to Rhynie and I picked up a piece of Rhynie chert with a piece of Rhynia - an ancient vascular plant. (I lost it some while ago.)
News that Prototaxites is an entirely different form of life is - well, mind blowing! And kind of incomprehensible.
(I also used to have a small fossil of stigmarian roots - giant horsetails - which I picked up on a mountain in Greenland. But I've lost that too!)
-
@JackTheCat and in our back yard! When I was doing my my PhD - forty years ago - my supervisor took me to Rhynie and I picked up a piece of Rhynie chert with a piece of Rhynia - an ancient vascular plant. (I lost it some while ago.)
News that Prototaxites is an entirely different form of life is - well, mind blowing! And kind of incomprehensible.
(I also used to have a small fossil of stigmarian roots - giant horsetails - which I picked up on a mountain in Greenland. But I've lost that too!)
@patrickhadfield All I'm currently wishing for is that it landed here on a comet.
-
G geisseltierchen@troet.cafe shared this topic
