Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

The study, a preprint posted to BioarXiv, focuses on prototaxites, an extinct group of organisms which existed from the Late ...

A painting of what Prototaxites may have looked like, 400 million years ago. | Credit: Painting by Mary Parrish, National Museum of Natural History. Scientists have discovered that a bizarre ...

“We report that Prototaxites taiti was the largest organism in the Rhynie ecosystem and its anatomy was fundamentally distinct from all known extant or extinct fungi,” the scientists wrote in their ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, mysterious life forms called Prototaxites towered toward the sky. Believed to be the first giant organisms to thrive on dry land, some species of Prototaxites ...

"We report that Prototaxites taiti was the largest organism in the Rhynie ecosystem and its anatomy was fundamentally distinct from all known extant or extinct fungi," the researchers wrote in the ...

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More research into Prototaxites fossils needs to be done to determine if they were fungi or a completely different type of life, and what caused them to go extinct millions of years ago.

entirely extinct group of eukaryotes.” Maybe Prototaxites was a fun guy if you got to know him, but he just didn’t fit in with the fungi. Elizabeth Rayne is a creature who writes. Her work has ...

New discovery suggests Prototaxites may belong to an extinct, unknown lineage Prototaxites, a mysterious ancient fossil, has puzzled scientists for over a century due to its unusual biology.

Fossil of Prototaxites, an extinct “plant”- Photo taken at Senckenberg Museum of Frankfurt. Credit: Ghedoghedo – CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Scientists have discovered a 400-million-year-old ...