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Title: Towering Mystery Fossil Was a 'Shroom With a View Post by: Orstio on April 27, 2007, 09:22:48 PM http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070425-fungus-fossil.html
At a time when the tallest trees stood just a few feet high, giant "mushrooms" towered over the landscape. That's the finding being reported by new a paper appearing in the May issue of the journal Geology. The study adds to the quest to solve a long-standing scientific puzzle: the true nature of a fossil that was the world's largest organism from about 420 million to 370 million years ago. Title: Re: Towering Mystery Fossil Was a 'Shroom With a View Post by: vishniac on April 28, 2007, 03:05:49 AM Awesome! :1thumbup
Title: Re: Towering Mystery Fossil Was a 'Shroom With a View Post by: Astronuc on April 28, 2007, 03:33:09 AM Years ago, I heard a report on the radio about the largest living organism being some giant fungus growing in some forest area over square miles. Apparently considered a single organism, as opposed to a colony of separate organisms. Ostensibly, this fossil is of something similar.
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