>>5095422
>earth used to just have mystery plant-adjacent columns unrelated to literally anything today

>without living descendants
Not very back after all.

turd bros… we got too cocky

The incels of evolution.

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>>5095431
earth used to have triradially-symmetrical and glide-symmetrical creatures of vaguely animal affinity

? haven't we known this for eons. Out of the 3 major lifeforms there was originally 4 that died out a billion years ago

they're just fungus and we still have them.

>>5095465
read it and weep
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec6277

>>5095467
No! That can't be! It's impossible!

>>5095495
This is just a type of fungus, which is itself a type of plant. Mushrooms are plants. You pluck them like you would a flower.

>>5095431
earth was on fire multiple times

>>5095522
The hubris of the prototaxites was their undoing

It's nuts to think about the biolions of years earth was around for and humans only showed up on the stage like 10,000 years ago or whatever and totally made this stupid rock our bitch

>>5095512
It's so funny how wrong and stupid this is :)

How do we bring them back? Frog DNA?

>>5095568
I think they can reform if you leave your cum rag out too long after using it too much

>>5095422
I have one between my legs

>>5095422
Wait, so what were they? Animals? Giant bacterial colonies?

>>5095440
Those are probably ancestral corals actually. Possibly even animals before the split between sponges and corals.

>>5095888
All we really know for sure is that they were eukaryotes.

>>5095888
Basically, a new study analysed the trace chemicals in the fossils and concluded the prototaxite's composition is too different from even other fungi of the era, so it cannot be classified as such. They're saying it's an entirely different kingdom, not plant, fungus, animal or anything else we know of today.
Mind you, it's not a new a theory, it's been proposed for a long time, but fungus was a much less controversial theory than a whole ass new kingdom, a completely extinct one at that.

>>5095431
Earth's atmospheric composition was never static and has had pretty extreme levels of different gases, temperatures, moisture levels, and such.

Life has been weird as fuck in the past. The bigger problem is when people in academy refuse to admit previous models and theories are wrong but instead forceful modify previous theories and models to fit blatant contradictions.

>>5095527
Humans have been around for over 300,000 years.

>>5096736
Looks like we have been around longer than we realized. The Two Rivers Kopje in Zambia was a pigment workshop that is between 350,000 to 400,000 years old. That means that humans were already making art supplies back then which is far more advanced than previously thought.

>>5096678
Never listen to any study that tries to study chemicals in fossils. They're always bullshit. This is pseudoscience.

when /an/ discovers that categorization of species is largely arbitrary they are gonna flip

Good video on this new study from a british professor of paleontology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqT8Q8plKJ8

>>5095422
Just like me frfr

>>5096959
madfag