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The First Giant Land Organism May Require A New Branch On The Tree Of Life
Since Prototaxites were discovered in the fossil record in 1843, scientists have debated whether they were early land plants, ...
New Scientist1d
Bizarre fossil may have been an entirely new type of life
Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...
Nature3y
Reading a Phylogenetic Tree: The Meaning of Monophyletic Groups
Indeed, the most basic postulate of evolutionary theory is that the same general phenomenon of descent from common ancestry applies to both the most diverse branches of the tree of life and the ...
CNN on MSN11d
Trees in art, as well as life, often follow simple mathematical rules, study finds
Like the branches, twigs and leaves of a tree ... They also examined Gustav Klimt’s 1909 painting “L’Arbre de Vie” (“Tree of ...
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Trees in art, as well as life, often follow simple mathematical rules, study finds
Like the branches, twigs and leaves of a tree ... They also examined Gustav Klimt’s 1909 painting “L’Arbre de Vie” (“Tree of Life”). They found that the trees depicted in the artworks ...