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After staying evaded from classification for more than a century, the giant, prehistoric fossil - Prototaxites - has eventually been pulled into the ‘fungus’ category. For decades, the mysterious fossil was mistaken to be a conifer, a lichen or even...
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So Lush, So Green, So refreshing, Lichen growing all over the rainforest trees.
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