doubtingtammy

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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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  However since it doesn’t do photosynthesis we can rule out belonging to those clades,

  There are plants and algae that don’t do photosynthesis (although I think they still have vestigial chloroplast?)