The Mystery of Prototaxites

Long before forests covered the earth, the birds sang in the trees, and dinosaurs walked on the planet, something strange towered over ancient landscapes. This organism called Prototaxites went extinct before the human eye had the chance to behold it. Judging by the fossils first discovered in 1859, scientists speculated that it looked like aContinueContinue reading “The Mystery of Prototaxites”