Prototaxites

(astrobiology.com)

48 points | by andsoitis 5 days ago ago

4 comments

  • thatoneengineer 8 hours ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites has more context. Tree sized and shaped living thing that wasn't a plant, which probably fed and reproduced like a fungus but per this latest research wasn't a fungus either, by far the largest known organism on land up to that point, in a time when land animals barely existed. Unsettling!

    • admissionsguy 5 hours ago

      So is it the kind of thing that Voynich manuscript describes?

      • simonh 3 hours ago

        Well, that and lots of naked ladies having baths.

      • jibal 3 hours ago

        No.