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For 130 years a giant tree-like stump had baffled paleontologists. Was it a plant, an alga, a lichen or something entirely different? A fossil dug up in Saudi Arabia gave the last word in a new study – it was a humongous fungus.

The huge fish, dubbed “Texas supershark”, measured more than 26 feet (8 meters) long and lived well before the age of dinosaurs.

It wasn’t until 2003 that Japanese scientists officially named Omura’s whale on the basis of nine carcasses hauled in by ships. No one had ever seen a live Omura’s whale in the wild – that is, until recently.