Today I learned that 400 million years ago, the largest land organism was kinda like a giant sausage sticking out of the ground. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites

[@til](https://lemmy.world/c/til) Today I learned that 400 million years ago, the largest land organism was kinda like a giant sausage sticking out of the ground. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites)

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