250 million years ago, life on Earth was nearly nonexistent due to a mass extinction.
In their place fungus ruled the land, according to a scientific study, reports ENN, and feasted on defunct wood, spreading decay.
The finding offers evidence against an alternative theory that rampant algae fed off the dead forests and puts to rest an old idea that an asteroid impact may have had a hand in the massive destruction.
If the fossils had turned out to be algae, it would've suggested a soggy, swampy world dominated by gradual changes in climate and the environment.
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