Previously Unknown Branch of Life Dominated Earth 400 Million Years Ago

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about prototaxites - the first complex life on Earth that went extinct
Links:
https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
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#prototaxite #biology #earth

0:00 Prototaxites - strange ancient organisms
1:30 Why this is important, Age of Fishes explained
2:50 Original discovery and assumptions: trees or mushrooms?
5:25 2025 discovery challenged previous theories
8:15 New kingdom of life?
9:40 Then they went extinct
10:20 Conclusions

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Credit:
Mark Garlick www.markgarlick.com
Kennethgass CC BY SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protota...
Matt Humpage
Mary Parrish, National Museum of Natural History
Smith609 CC BY 3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookson...
G.J. Retallack CC BY sa 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protota...
Y_tambe CC BY SA 3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypha#/...

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