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Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms

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"A 6-metre fungus would be odd enough in the modern world, but at least we are used to trees quite a bit bigger," says Boyce. "Plants at that time were a few feet tall, invertebrate animals were small, and there were no terrestrial vertebrates. This fossil would have been all the more striking in such a diminutive landscape." Fossils of the organisms, known as Prototaxites, had peppered the paleontological findings of the past century and a half, ever since they were first discovered by a Canadian in 1859. But despite the fossil records, no one could figure out what the heck these giant spires were. The University of Chicago:


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