Scientists are suggesting there may be a brand new type of life — or, at least, that one existed back in the day. In a new, not yet peer-reviewed paper, scientists from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland argue that the massive and mysterious tubelike fossils known as "prototaxites" deserve their own life form classification because, basically, they're too weird to belong to any other. Since its discovery in the 1800s, prototaxites have long been a head-scratcher and a point of contention for scientists who, to this day, cannot figure out its nature. Fossils of this bizarre organism, which lived […]

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