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"If I was interested in a career in astrobiology or astrophysics what kind of classes should I be taking in highschool/college?"
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Ancient Organism Verified as Fungus
NAI scientists from the Carnegie Institution of Washington Team and their colleagues have a new paper in Geology outlining their process in resolving the mysterious identity of the Devonian fossil organism Prototaxities as a fungus. The team analyzed carbon isotopic ratios of the fossil relative to plants that lived in the same environment 400 million years ago.
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