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When giant mushrooms ruled the Earth (eartharchives.org)

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For 130 years a giant tree-like stump had baffled paleontologists. Was it a plant, an alga, a lichen or something entirely different? A fossil dug up in Saudi Arabia gave the last word in a new study – it was a humongous fungus.

A fungus called Prototaxites towered more than 24 feet (8m) over most of the land plants of the Silurian Period and was as much as three feet (1m) wide.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That's a really cool discovery. Too bad they didn't have giant caps and gills to go with the humungous stalks, or Silurian Earth might have resembled the Mushroom Kingdom!