Friday, April 27, 2007

You would really want one of these at a party

A 6 metre high giant fungi!

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Scientists have identified the Godzilla of fungi - a giant, prehistoric fossil that has evaded classification for more than a century.

A chemical analysis has shown that the 6-metre-tall organism with a tree-like trunk was a fungus that became extinct more than 350 million years ago.

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Samples of the giant fungi have been found all over the world since its discovery a century ago. It lived between 420 million and 350 million years ago, at a time when millipedes and worms were among the first creatures to make their home on dry land. No animals with a backbone had left the oceans.

2 comments:

Sorghum Crow said...

But the real question is, is it a culinary or pharmaceutical fungus?

ellroon said...

Hmmm... I just had a vision of very stoned trilobites....