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Comment on Scientists have confirmed that a 26ft tall, tree-trunk-shaped organism, first discovered in Scotland in 1843, isn't a fungus or plant, but an entirely distinct evolutionary branch of life

victorz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

an entirely extinct evolutionary branch of life

Pardon my ignorance, I seem to have misunderstood the meaning of “extinct” (?).

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someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s a fossil.

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- victorz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Oooh, okay yeah.
  
  Man, what I wouldn’t give to time travel back millions of years and just have a glance through the window of a pod, to see what it would be like to live here for a day back then.
  
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