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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 (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 99 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is an article in the shitrag Torygraph and it doesn't even include a link to the original paper!

There's a preprint of the paper here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.14.643340v1.full.pdf

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 7 points 6 days ago

My Hero! Thanks for posting!

Hmm, preprint, submitted 2025 March 17, appears to be taking a while to get past the review process to full publication. It's fascinating how much we've learned to tell about biological processes by looking at the fossilization end products.