Giant, Ancient Life Form Doesn’t Fit Into Any Known Branch of Life
Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...
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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, ...
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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 mysterious life form that went extinct long ago ...
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Study: Humans are driving the loss of entire branches of the ‘Tree of Life’
Humans are driving the loss of entire branches of the “Tree of Life”, according to a new study published last Monday which warns of the threat of a sixth mass extinction. “The extinction ...
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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 ...
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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 ...