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Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

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Long before forests of tall trees covered the planet, Earth was ruled by something stranger: towering, trunk like organisms ...

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Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have ...

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However, as research progressed, it became evident that this ancient giant did not fit neatly into any known category of life. The scientific community has long debated whether Prototaxites was an ...

It feels like it doesn’t fit comfortably anywhere,” says Matthew Nelsen, a senior research scientist at the Field Museum of ...

Their trunklike fossils were discovered in 1843. Yet despite more than a century of speculation, scientists have struggled to answer the most basic question about Earth’s original terrestrial giants: ...