Innerworld@lemmy.world to Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 months agoScientists have confirmed that a 26ft tall, tree-trunk-shaped organism, first discovered in Scotland in 1843, isn't a fungus or plant, but an entirely distinct evolutionary branch of lifewww.telegraph.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkScientists have confirmed that a 26ft tall, tree-trunk-shaped organism, first discovered in Scotland in 1843, isn't a fungus or plant, but an entirely distinct evolutionary branch of lifewww.telegraph.co.ukInnerworld@lemmy.world to Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months ago an entirely extinct evolutionary branch of life Pardon my ignorance, I seem to have misunderstood the meaning of “extinct” (?).
minus-squaresomeguy3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoIt’s a fossil. Really should be part of the headline.
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoOooh, okay yeah. Man, what I wouldn’t give to time travel back millions of years and just have a glance through the window of a pod, to see what it would be like to live here for a day back then.
Pardon my ignorance, I seem to have misunderstood the meaning of “extinct” (?).
It’s a fossil. Really should be part of the headline.
Oooh, okay yeah.
Man, what I wouldn’t give to time travel back millions of years and just have a glance through the window of a pod, to see what it would be like to live here for a day back then.