Prototaxites doesn't make any sense.
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Prototaxites doesn't make sense. If it's the fruting body of a fungus & grows tall to disperse spores, we have no evidence the enigmatic titan dildos ever did anything like that. No gills, no vents. It's possible Prototaxites could not be preserved once it opened, as many mushrooms fall apart after releasing spores... but they still have differentiated cells.
I like the theory that it could be a lichen and grew tall for light. Though why did this never happen again?
Giant Prehistoric Fungi (Prototaxites logani)
When it was first discovered, Prototaxites was fought to be a tree, or some weird algae. Closer analysis of the fossils in 2001 showed that in fact, Prototaxites as a giant fungi. The small plant at the...
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Prototaxites doesn't make sense. If it's the fruting body of a fungus & grows tall to disperse spores, we have no evidence the enigmatic titan dildos ever did anything like that. No gills, no vents. It's possible Prototaxites could not be preserved once it opened, as many mushrooms fall apart after releasing spores... but they still have differentiated cells.
I like the theory that it could be a lichen and grew tall for light. Though why did this never happen again?
Giant Prehistoric Fungi (Prototaxites logani)
When it was first discovered, Prototaxites was fought to be a tree, or some weird algae. Closer analysis of the fossils in 2001 showed that in fact, Prototaxites as a giant fungi. The small plant at the...
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@futurebird Because fungi are a weird, long, convoluted way down the evolutionary path, with many dead ends and maybe very few forcing factors like predation to worry about having to maximize the efficiency of the genome?
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Prototaxites doesn't make sense. If it's the fruting body of a fungus & grows tall to disperse spores, we have no evidence the enigmatic titan dildos ever did anything like that. No gills, no vents. It's possible Prototaxites could not be preserved once it opened, as many mushrooms fall apart after releasing spores... but they still have differentiated cells.
I like the theory that it could be a lichen and grew tall for light. Though why did this never happen again?
Giant Prehistoric Fungi (Prototaxites logani)
When it was first discovered, Prototaxites was fought to be a tree, or some weird algae. Closer analysis of the fossils in 2001 showed that in fact, Prototaxites as a giant fungi. The small plant at the...
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maybe it never happened again because starting in the mid or late Devonian lichen could grow on trees. (I confess I don't find this response particularly satisfactory. But then trilobites have never happened again. ) -
@futurebird Because fungi are a weird, long, convoluted way down the evolutionary path, with many dead ends and maybe very few forcing factors like predation to worry about having to maximize the efficiency of the genome?
@futurebird If you think about it, fungi are a really nice calling card for evolution "will fill any niche no matter how weird or how little anyone else wants it. Odd shapes and disgusting morphologies a speciality. Call now for rates."
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Prototaxites doesn't make sense. If it's the fruting body of a fungus & grows tall to disperse spores, we have no evidence the enigmatic titan dildos ever did anything like that. No gills, no vents. It's possible Prototaxites could not be preserved once it opened, as many mushrooms fall apart after releasing spores... but they still have differentiated cells.
I like the theory that it could be a lichen and grew tall for light. Though why did this never happen again?
Giant Prehistoric Fungi (Prototaxites logani)
When it was first discovered, Prototaxites was fought to be a tree, or some weird algae. Closer analysis of the fossils in 2001 showed that in fact, Prototaxites as a giant fungi. The small plant at the...
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Listen I'm sorry I compared Prototaxites to a dildo I'm just getting very frustrated trying to understand what the point of it was and it's making me a little irritable.
Some of the papers are very technical and all about molecular biology. Working out what little can be determined from microscopy on thin sections of the fossils.
It's apparently most similar to yeast and cup fungi. And the carbon profile is like fungi.
But the mysteries remain!
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Listen I'm sorry I compared Prototaxites to a dildo I'm just getting very frustrated trying to understand what the point of it was and it's making me a little irritable.
Some of the papers are very technical and all about molecular biology. Working out what little can be determined from microscopy on thin sections of the fossils.
It's apparently most similar to yeast and cup fungi. And the carbon profile is like fungi.
But the mysteries remain!
@futurebird Perhaps this will cheer you up?
What am I saying, of *course* it'll cheer you up, it's about ants!
Adria LeBoeuf (@Adria@mstdn.science)
Attached: 1 image Using Bayesian neural networks and evolutionary modelling, we show that trophallaxis evolved twice in ants: 130 million years ago when flowering plants became more abundant and ants began harvesting sugary liquids from plants and their insect partners, and again in others ~90 million years ago.
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@futurebird Perhaps this will cheer you up?
What am I saying, of *course* it'll cheer you up, it's about ants!
Adria LeBoeuf (@Adria@mstdn.science)
Attached: 1 image Using Bayesian neural networks and evolutionary modelling, we show that trophallaxis evolved twice in ants: 130 million years ago when flowering plants became more abundant and ants began harvesting sugary liquids from plants and their insect partners, and again in others ~90 million years ago.
mstdn.science (mstdn.science)
I get 404?
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I get 404?
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I think they have their server set not to just let you surf it if not logged in. But if I paste the link here I'm able to connect. After all I follow @Adria !
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Prototaxites doesn't make sense. If it's the fruting body of a fungus & grows tall to disperse spores, we have no evidence the enigmatic titan dildos ever did anything like that. No gills, no vents. It's possible Prototaxites could not be preserved once it opened, as many mushrooms fall apart after releasing spores... but they still have differentiated cells.
I like the theory that it could be a lichen and grew tall for light. Though why did this never happen again?
Giant Prehistoric Fungi (Prototaxites logani)
When it was first discovered, Prototaxites was fought to be a tree, or some weird algae. Closer analysis of the fossils in 2001 showed that in fact, Prototaxites as a giant fungi. The small plant at the...
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@futurebird
Depicted here with angiosperm plants? -
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Depicted here with angiosperm plants?The lego designer says you should please pretend they are Renalia hueberi.
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Listen I'm sorry I compared Prototaxites to a dildo I'm just getting very frustrated trying to understand what the point of it was and it's making me a little irritable.
Some of the papers are very technical and all about molecular biology. Working out what little can be determined from microscopy on thin sections of the fossils.
It's apparently most similar to yeast and cup fungi. And the carbon profile is like fungi.
But the mysteries remain!
@futurebird
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a thought I've occasionally had about Prototaxites: some spores have an extremely tough outer covering that survives fossilization well, and survives nasty acids palynologists use to dissolve fossil pollen and spores out of rocks. Unfortunately, the same word, "spores" is used for both plant spores and fungal spores.
