@til Today I learned that 400 million years ago, the largest land organism was kinda like a giant sausage sticking out of the ground. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites
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I mean, sorta, but also not really. A fungus tree with no leaves I suppose , although the drawing sorta makes it look leaf like
“Dawson’s 1888 reconstruction of a conifer-like Prototaxites”