Brutkey

myrmepropagandist
@futurebird@sauropods.win

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 for growing large? A runaway.

WHAT IF ITS ALIENS?
(someone calm me down please)

OK what if it's Siphonophore-like? Or something lichen like? eg not just one organism?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqT8Q8plKJ8

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec6277

myrmepropagandist
@futurebird@sauropods.win

It would be so fitting if aliens showed up. And they were just these big dildos as tall as a house that hung around for a few million years then moved on.

(There isn't any good reason to think it's not part of earth life, sadly. It's just not fitting into any major group very well. But it has always been an outlier. If only we could ask the early arthropods, they knew the answers.)