by Elio — We dealt with a mon­ster fos­sil fun­gus be­fore. In the in­ter­est of ex­pe­di­ency, let me reprint part of what I said: "Sev­eral mu­se­ums pos­sess spec­i­mens of a cylin­dri­cal or­gan­ism named Pro­to­tax­ites whose tree-like trunks mea­sure up to 8 me­ters long by 1 me­ter wide. Pro­to­tax­ites dated from ap­prox­i­mately 420 to 350 mil­lion...