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430 million years ago, towering life-forms known as Prototaxites emerged ... No extant fungi have tubes like this inside them—let alone with strange rings. The only place rings are found in ...

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Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the extremophiles could potentially live on the Red Planet.