Prototaxites: Shrooms Like Cedars in the Devonian Wilds
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Did 20-foot-tall giant fungi rule the earth 400 million years ago? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the puzzling prototaxites fossils from the Devonian period.
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| 1:41.4 | the Devonian period. His pale gray eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face became flushed |
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