New ancient fungus finding suggests world's forests were wiped out in global catastrophe

Friday, October 2, 2009 - 08:28 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Tiny organisms that covered the planet more than 250 million years ago appear to be a species of ancient fungus that thrived in dead wood, according to new research published 1 October in the journal Geology...

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