When Giant Fungi Ruled

PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to ↓ More info below ↓ 420 million years ago, a giant feasted on the dead, growing slowly into the largest living thing on land. It belonged to an unlikely group of pioneers that ultimately made life on land possible -- the fungi. Produced for PBS Digital Studios. Thanks to Franz Anthony of and Jon Hughes of for their tremendous reconstructions of Prototaxites. Want to follow Eons elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - Twitter - Instagram - References: http