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    „Neue Lebensform“ wurde in Schottland entdeckt | OGN täglich

    https://www.onlygoodnewsdaily.com/post/new-form-of-life-has-been-discovered-in-scotland

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    2. PurvisAnathema on

      What a horrible thing to say about the Scottish. Leave them alone, you meanies.

    4. Fire_Otter on

      > However, researchers from the University of Edinburgh and National Museums Scotland have discovered that the fossil is **neither fungus nor plant**, but a new lifeform that became extinct around 370 million years ago.

      woah that’s huge news!

    5. L0K0MoTiVA on

      Prototaxites is the life form discussed in the article. This 370-million-year-old fossil, resembling a giant woody tree trunk up to 26 feet tall without leaves, has been confirmed by University of Edinburgh and National Museums Scotland researchers as neither a fungus nor a plant.

    6. peoplearecool on

      I thought these things were already discovered years ago. A few documentaries on the evolution of the planet shower those

    7. zalurker on

      That title sounds like the intro to a Monty Python skit. Fascinating article. Makes you wonder what else is out there. A lot of organic material did not fossilize.

    10. AbbydonX on

      Here is the paper that published the work investigating the already well known, but extinct, Prototaxites that suggested they are less related to fungi than previously thought.

      [Prototaxites fossils are structurally and chemically distinct from extinct and extant Fungi](https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec6277)

      > Prototaxites was the first giant organism to live on the terrestrial surface, represented by columnar fossils of up to eight meters from the Early Devonian. However, its systematic affinity has been debated for over 165 years. There are now two remaining viable hypotheses: Prototaxites was either a fungus, or a member of an entirely extinct lineage. Here, we investigate the affinity of Prototaxites by contrasting its organization and molecular composition with that of Fungi. We report that fossils of Prototaxites taiti from the 407-million-year-old Rhynie chert were chemically distinct from contemporaneous Fungi and structurally distinct from all known Fungi. This finding casts doubt upon the fungal affinity of Prototaxites, instead suggesting that this enigmatic organism is best assigned to an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage.

    12. Ehrre on

      How can you possibly get enough information from a fossil to determine it’s neither a plant or a fungus

    13. FourNaansJeremyFour on

      I swear I remember reading a paper within the last couple of years that used some biochemical magic to convincingly tie them to an obscure but extant group of single-celled eukaryotes. Can’t find it now

    15. FranzLimit on

      Didn’t find it in the article. It’s neither plant nor mushroom but was it an amimal? Was it related to something like sponges?

    16. Honesty-Not-Allowed on

      Prototaxites, Couldn’t they call it something easier, I mean we have animals, plants, fungus.

      Students are going to have a hard time with this one.

      I personally will call it Trungus.

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