Maybe not. I just found out that there is a competing theory about these fossils. Maybe they weren't trees. Maybe they were more like ... rolled up rugs.
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myrmepropagandist on Nostr: Everyone knows that Prototaxites was a giant fungi of The Age of the Fish. Towering ...
Everyone knows that Prototaxites was a giant fungi of The Age of the Fish. Towering giants that soared before "tree" or even "small fern" was even a vague notion. And then? The bugs ate them and THEY grew giant. (and hence came the golden age, the Carboniferous when bugs were big) Right?
Maybe not. I just found out that there is a competing theory about these fossils. Maybe they weren't trees. Maybe they were more like ... rolled up rugs.
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Maybe not. I just found out that there is a competing theory about these fossils. Maybe they weren't trees. Maybe they were more like ... rolled up rugs.
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