Prototaxis formed high structures such as tree trunks, which appears in this illustration of a landscape of the Silurian period
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Previously a strange old organism thought it was a giant mushroom, mysterious can be a branch of the tree of life.
Prototaxites, He lived between 420 million and 375 million years ago, the first huge form of earth on earth was on the ground. Like trunk structures grew 8 feet high and meters wide.
His fossils first …
