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Photo: Towering Mystery Fossil Was a 'Shroom With a ViewNew research on the mystery fossil, like this sample found in Saudi Arabia (bottom), backs up earlier theories that Prototaxites was a massive fungus that stood up to 24 feet (8 meters) tall. Illustration by Mary Parrish, National Museum of Natural History; photograph reprinted from Review of Paleobotany and Palynology, Vol. 116, "Rotted wood--alga--fungus: the history and life of Prototaxites Dawson 1959," by Francis Hueber, p. 146, Smithsonian Institution, Copyright 2001, with permission from Elsevier
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