When Fungus Grew to the Size of Trees

Toadstools rarely reach higher then your ankle but in the Devonian period over 350 million years ago they use to grow to the size of trees and the ancient ecosystem that made these giant fungus possible was so strange that it could be taken right out of science fiction.

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Sources:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2017.0146

https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.uoregon.edu/dist/d/3735/files/2020/09/Retallack-2020-Ordovician-land-plants.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263745943_Affinities_and_architecture_of_Devonian_trunks_of_Prototaxites_loganii

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/fungi/lichens/lichenfr.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2880155/

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