Mystery of the 400-million-year-old "trees"

Well, it isn't a tree so the title's a bit off. No worries, just a stickler of mine. I remember reading about it the other night, in a book I have. Fellow who found it initially thought it was a rotting log that was fossilized.

ya the title is a bit off isnt it, Oh well, Could you imagine the thing being a fugi growing to such a size? Just would seem to me that such a fungi would collapse under its own wieght or maybe it did,

Thank you, TFF........was very interesting. Fungus from between the toes of the Anunnaki? Could beeeee! http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/070423_mystery_fungus.html

well at least livescience got the title right anyways, Thanks for the link Regards; TFF

Tis hard for me to comprehend something being 400 million yrs old..........awesome. Would love to have seen it in all it's glory.

The LiveScience article is slightly off. Prototaxis did not "stand 20 feet high", the liverwort mats of which the Prototaxis fossils are remnants of were wind or gravity rolled into trunk-like shapes 20 feet or so long on the ground. This is explained in the Daily Galaxy article in the OP.

The LiveScience article is slightly off. Prototaxis did not "stand 20 feet high", the liverwort mats of which the Prototaxis fossils are remnants of were wind or gravity rolled into trunk-like shapes 20 feet or so long on the ground. This is explained in the Daily Galaxy article in the OP. Thank you for that Leonardo, I dont know anything about this type of findings, The article though I did find interesting Regards; TFF

20 feet tall mushrooms and no eggs for the ultimate mushroom omelet.. what a waste (