Giant, Ancient Life Form Doesn’t Fit Into Any Known Branch of Life
Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...
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407-million-year-old: Fossil of 1st land-dwelling giant breaks the tree of life
Scientists then leaned towards it being a giant fungus, but the classification remained uncertain. A 2007 study even ...
Scientists baffled at mysterious ancient creature that doesn't fit on the tree of life as we know it
An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...
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‘Kingdoms of Life’ Review: Creature Feature
turning her imagination to the six classifications of life forms that scientists call kingdoms: plants, animals, fungi, protists, bacteria and the mysterious archaea. In “Kingdoms of Life ...
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Fungi Are Responsible For Life On Land As We Know It
Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated kingdom of the natural world ... water safe to drink by killing bacteria. “In those early gatherings of humans ...
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Unicellular organisms
There are different unicellular organisms and types of bacteria. Yeast are unicellular fungi. They are used by brewers and wine-makers because they convert sugar into alcohol, and by bakers ...