HA HA HA, this is actually funny. So if aliens would have landed on Earth 400 million years ago, they would consider *our* world to be Planet Alien?
Nobody even knows what "prototaxites" were, or even whether they were standing upright like large tree trunks or growing horizontally like fungal mats. Nor is it clear what they were: grandiose fungi, gargantuan lichens, bizarre hybrids, or an entirely new kingdom of life? They are definitely problematica! If they grew vertically, Earth´s landmasses looked very, very strange during the early Devonian, since plants were extremely small.
There is even a speculation that arthropods quite literally *ate* all prototaxites, a lunch break that must have taken millions of years. I sense a new Walt Disney franchise coming up...
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