350 million-year-old mystery fossil is not an algae, but a giant fungus: Study - Instablogs
350 million-year-old mystery fossil is not an algae, but a giant fungus: Study
Irani , New Delhi: Apr 24 2007
Made Popular Apr 24 2007
After staying evaded from classification for more than a century, the giant, prehistoric fossil - Prototaxites - has eventually been pulled into the ‘fungus’ category. For decades, the mysterious fossil was mistaken to be a conifer, a...
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Tags: National Museum of Natural History, conifer, lichen, algae
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