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myrmepropagandist @futurebird@sauropods.win

2/7/2026, 3:40:21 AM

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If #Prototaxites isn't a fungi, and it's not a plant: What on earth is it?

It would be very strange to have a living thing from a previously unknown branch of life AND it's this huge giant towering structure.

What if it was the first thing to crack the code for growing large? A runaway.

WHAT IF ITS ALIENS?
(someone calm me down please)

OK what if it's Siphonophore-like? Or something lichen like? eg not just one organism?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqT8Q8plKJ8

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec6277

Photos of slices of the fossils of the strange not-a-fungus (probably) called Prototaxites Frankly it looks very much like a fungi to me... but I know very little about these things. It is full of vertical holes and radial fanning tissue.

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