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Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...

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The prototaxites fossil, which is about 410 million years old, was found near the village of Rhynie in Aberdeenshire.