Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Our Planet Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms

Good News Network ^ | Apr 26, 2023 | Andy Corbley

[nickcarraway]

[Larry Lucido]

[week 71]

Sounds Smurfy

[BenLurkin]

Morrowind?

[Magnum44]

[Michael.SF.]

scientists like C. Kevin Boyce, a geophysicist... who has published several papers on Prototaxites, back to the theory that they were fungi.

So Kevin is a real fungi.

[mikelets456]

Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Our Planet Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms....DUDE!

Now it sounds like a real title.

[I want the USA back]

The fungus among us were humongous.

[PROCON]

Paging the expert.

[dfwgator]

But Gus the gardener’s gone now and you went with him too,
The fungus here reminds me of the fun Gus is having with you;
The rockery’s a mockery, with weeds it’s overgrown,
The fuchsia’s gone, I couldn’t face the fuchsia all alone

And my tears fell like raindrops from the sky above,
And poisoned all the flowers in my garden of love.

-Benny Hill

[dfwgator]

You leaped a bunch of mushrooms, I'm so impressed.

Well, you're the one who got captured by mushrooms. How the __k does that even happen? You got kidnapped by something that goes on a salad.

[Bullish]

Dude! Shrooms!

[packagingguy]

You beat me to it. But was Princess Peach alive back then?

[null and void]

You look like a fungi...

[GaltAdonis]

[null and void]

[GaltAdonis]

"Dude! Shrooms!"

[Fungi]

will make a comment shortly after I digest the article, as flimsy as it is.

[Fungi]

The so called “discovery” is many years old, rehashed again. Despite the mushrooms in the picture, they have no way of knowing what they looked like. Mycelium is indeed different from other cells in size and complexity, something that was not covered. Where are the spores? All fungi reproduce through spores with spores from different groups having distinct characteristics. Basidiospores have an attachment peg, a cleft where they were attached to the basidium. Ascospores have no such feature. Asci have a detachable operculum, the opening where the ascospores emerge. But an operculum is also found in Oomycetes, on a sporangium or sporangiospore, where the zoospores emerge; zoospores also have flagella. These structures could have been anything, calling it a giant “mushroom’ is pure conjecture. The largest mushroom known today is only two feet in size (Macrocybe titans, https://sites.google.com/a/simplescience.info/www/biology/fungi). So where did these giant “mushrooms” go? Simple conjecture, nothing more.

May the void once again prove its nullness.

[Vaduz]

Two of the giant mushrooms survived they can be seen at the White House.