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Giant fossil Prototaxites: Unraveling a 400-million-year-old mystery

Contradictions and puzzles surround the giant fossil Prototaxites. The fossils resemble tree trunks, and yet they are from a time before trees existed. The stable carbon isotope values are similar to those of fungi, but th ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

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