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Fungi are the origins of all creatures on earth, humans included it seems. As far as I know, it's still the oldest identified complex organism on this planet.
by daddylongstroke 5y ago
Fungi are the origins of all creatures on earth, humans included it seems. As far as I know, it's still the oldest identified complex organism on this planet.
- pvaldes 5y ago> Fungi are the origins of all creatures on earth, humans included Bacteria are older. Nobody knows if that fossil is a fungus. It looks like one, but to me looks much more like a tiny sponge. I could be wrong and could be perfectly a third different thing. Ctenophora are now the oldest animals I think, so there was a lot of old complexity yet from the start that we don't know well.
- daddylongstroke 5y agoI was thinking of Prototaxites which was maybe 470m years old (possibly) and humongous. Sounds like sponges are it (oldest) then. Until we learn otherwise.