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Prototaxites Belong to Extinct Eukaryotes

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Giant, Ancient Life Form Doesnât Fit Into Any Known Branch of Life

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Prototaxites grew up to 26 feet ( 8 meters ) in height and resembled tree trunks composed of tiny interconnected tubes.

They were the first giant organisms to thrive on dry land and were thought to be the first organisms to live on land.

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh analyzed fossil remains of a species called Prototexites taiti.

They concluded that Prototxites likely belonged to a now-extinct lineage of multicellular terrestrial eukaryotes.

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https://www.britannica.com/science/heterotroph https://www.britannica.com/science/eukaryote https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/35/5/399/129855/Devonian-landscape-heterogeneity-recorded-by-a?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/alllife/eukaryotasy.html https://organismalbio.biosci.gatech.edu/biodiversity/prokaryotes-bacteria-archaea-2/#:~:text=Both%20Bacteria%20and%20Archaea%20are,the%20rest%20of%20the%20cell.https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/materials-science/lignin https://www.britannica.com/science/protist https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/devonian/rhynie.html https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31807896/https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.643340v1 https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007Geo....35..399B/abstract

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www.britannica.com pubs.geoscienceworld.org ucmp.berkeley.edu organismalbio.biosci.gatech.edu www.sciencedirect.com pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.biorxiv.org ui.adsabs.harvard.edu

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