I picked the wrong colours for #Prototaxites and now it looks like a creature from Alien Storm or a Cronenberg movie. 😅#SciArt
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https://youtu.be/EXUsgs0neM4
'Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about prototaxites - the first complex life on Earth that went extinct
0:00 Prototaxites - strange ancient organisms
1:30 Why this is important, Age of Fishes explained
2:50 Original discovery and […]
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Neues von #Prototaxites – Pflanze, Pilz, Alge oder was ganz anderes?
Von Bettina #Wurche
Im #Devon (420 – 360 Mio Jahre) besiedelten größere #Lebensformen allmählich das Festland. Große Pflanzen oder gar Bäume gab es allerdings noch nicht, die #Urvegetation […]
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#FossilFriday Neues von #Prototaxites
Vielleicht doch kein Pilz?
Ich bin nicht so ganz überzeugt, aber interessant ist es auf jeden Fall!
scilogs.spektrum.de/meertext/neu...
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Mysteriöse Urzeitgiganten könnten völlig neue Lebensform sein
Die Kreatur #Prototaxites lebte vor 430 Millionen Jahren und wurde bis zu acht Meter hoch. Wo im Stammbaum sie zu Hause war, ist bis heute ein paläontologisches Rätsel
www.derstandard.de/story/300000...
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Schlimm - nicht mal den Namen kann ich schreiben: #Prototaxites zum Glück vor 400 Millionen Jahren ausgestorben (war aber weder Pilz noch Flechte, sondern eine eigenständige Lebensform).
borncity.eu/senioren/202...
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Photos of slices of the fossils of the strange not-a-fungus (probably) called Prototaxites Frankly it looks very much like a fungi to me... but I know very little about these things. It is full of vertical holes and radial fanning tissue.
If #Prototaxites isn't a fungi, and it's not a plant: What on earth is it?
It would be very strange to have a living thing from a previously unknown branch of life AND it's this huge giant towering structure.
What if it was the first thing to crack the code […]
[Original post on sauropods.win]
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So cool: study shows #Prototaxites were not #fungi, " ... instead suggesting that this enigmatic organism is best assigned to an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage."
9 meters tall!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#fungifriends
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#Prototaxites war ein gigantischer, säulenförmiger Organismus, der vor etwa 470 bis 360 Millionen Jahren (vom mittleren Ordovizium bis zum späten Devon) die Landmassen der Erde dominierte. Im 19. Jahrhundert dachten Wissenschaftler zunächst, Prototaxites sei der verfaulte Stamm eines Nadelbaums.
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Also just saw news today of some #EarlyVertebrates, from the half billion years ago #Cambrian period of course as I’ve been known, like some early proto fish, apparently some of them had #FourEyes?! Also for days i’ve heard that the enigmatic #Prototaxites may not have been some giant mushroom?
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That’s not asparagus in the picture 😉 #Prototaxites
Before trees came along some 400 million years ago, our planet’s landscape was dominated by enigmatic, spire-shaped life-forms that towered more than 25 feet above the ground.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/myst...
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Oh my ! #Prototaxites has always fascinated me I have imagined wandering through a landscape of these towering forms
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WRITER FUEL: A bizarre ancient life-form, considered to be the first giant organism to live on land, may belong to a totally unknown branch of the tree of life, scientists say.
www.limfic.com/2025/07/23/w...
#WriterFuel #StoryIdeas #Writers #Authors #Prototaxites #AncientLife
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Prototaxites podría representar una forma de vida extinta completamente nueva killbait.com/es/prototaxi... #ciencia #fósiles #prototaxites #evolución
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{What'theydon't tell you about the Devonianperiod🍄|🛢|💊} #Prototaxites #Devonianperiod #antiindustry
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Pen drawing of prototaxites groing on the edge of a river, seen in cross section. It it growing at an angle and curved up from the bank and has six short branches at the top. The rootlie whizomorphs grow across the surface and into the water, with smaller rhizomorphs growing off them and into the soil. A small cooksonia is on the far right.
A VERY speculative small Prototaxites living along the shores of a river, with rhizomorphs extending into the water to leach nutrients from algal mats and from the water itself.
This is actually still consistent with what we know about #Prototaxites.
#paleoart #FossilFriday #sciart
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A diagram with two restorations of prototaxites loganii. On the left is a drawing of the whole organism, which is a tall ridged tree like trunk with a canopy of 6 small upright branches. On the right is a close up drawing of those branches. There are large blocks of text labelling the diagrams. I'd you would like these written out I can add follow up posts with a transcript.
Happy #FossilFriday!
My talk on restoring the life appearance of #Prototaxites has just been released on YouTube (youtu.be/_p4jmlj-Fkk?...), so to supplement it, I thought I'd make this quick reconstruction guide for Prototaxites loganii. Enjoy! #paleoart #sciart #paleontology #scicomm #fossils
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Heyyy, so my talk on restoring #Prototaxites is finally online!!! #paleontology #paleoart #sciart #scicomm
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#SurLaTerreDesDinosaures2 #HomoNaledi #Preprinteverywhere #Sourismouth #CulturesPaléolithique #Génétique #Plumes #Duonychus #Herrerasaurus #Exoparia #Mammifères #Amphibien #Megalodon #Prototaxites
youtu.be/4Fe4KXFg2u4?...
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A landscape painting of a dusk sky: the groud in the foreground is almost black, but is partially illuminated by green glowing coming from the bases and lower trunks of many Prototaxites. Their crowns are irregularly branched and silhouetted against the early night sky. The sky itself is orange at the horizon, turning swiftly into deep blue. Stars can be seen, and a thin curved arc can be seen descending into the disappearing sunset.
Here's a quick painting I did for my #Prototaxites talk last week, depicting one of the more speculative ideas which I explored: Bioluminescence!!!
This isn't a specific species, but is based on the earliest species we have; the Middle Ordovician P. honeggeri. #FossilFriday #paleoart #paleontology
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Tall, cylindrical growths in a lush river valley with mountains in background.
Interesting! The 1st giant #lifeform to grow on Earth's ancient surface could represent an entirely lost kingdom of #life. A new study challenges the classification of #Prototaxites, towering tree-like lifeforms from 400 million years ago.
buff.ly/0jEfbov
📸 Mary Parrish/ Univ. of New Hampshire.
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Great to see the excellent work from @sandyheth.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social on #prototaxites highlighted in @earthskyscience.bsky.social 🧪
earthsky.org/earth/protot...
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Giant, Ancient Life Form Doesn’t Fit Into Any Known Branch of Life
gizmodo.com/giant-ancien...
#Prototaxites #science
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What if Earth's earliest giant wasn't a tree or fungus, but something entirely different? Dive into the mystery of Prototaxites and its implications for life's history. #Prototaxites #AncientLife #EvolutionMystery #ScienceDiscovery #OngoingNow24
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