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Scientists found fossil extinct around 370 million years ago in Scotland

Fuck clickbaity headlines. And a fossil isn't a organism anymore.

Also, it's this one.

Here's a good video about this that I watched the other day:

https://youtu.be/LqT8Q8plKJ8

This is an article in the shitrag Torygraph and it doesn't even include a link to the original paper!

There's a preprint of the paper here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.643340v1.full.pdf

Well, trash. I already knew about these, but as fossils. This headline made me think they found a branch of them just growing in Scotland. But no, it is just the thing we already knew about. Not sure how they got any information that confirms they weren't plants or fungi from fossils, but I guess that is the only newsworthy thing here. (Tubes, mostly looking at the branching of tubes and how they differ from any fruiting fungus is what I gather after reading the actual paper. I do think it is interesting that they also focused on how they are different from crustaceans. It would have been pretty interesting if those were crab trees.)

These have been studied for quite a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites

I saw a really good rundown of this the other day on YouTube: "Presented by Joe Botting, independent palaeontologist and Honorary Research Fellow at the National Museum Wales":

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

*fossil of an organism

"new lifeform that became extinct around 370 million years ago"

Link without pay wall https://archive.ph/LEcGT

It looks like a giant...

Soooo.... let's clone it and see what happens!

I think they'll find it was my penis. And yes, it is alive

i hear gene belcher, “land boner!”

A what now?

Edit: oh, extinct: (

Maybe its a protists like thing similar to coral? Idk