Unusual stones can be found in the central and southern regions of Romania. Trowants - that's what the locals call them. It turns out that these stones can not only grow, but to everyone's surprise, multiply.
Such stones do not have sharp corners, they have a rounded or streamlined shape. But, after the rain, inexplicable events happen to them: they begin to grow like mushrooms and increase in size.
For example, a small trowant, which weighed only a few grams, may well grow to gigantic proportions over time and become more than a ton heavier. The older the stone, the slower it grows. Young stones grow faster. In terms of their internal structure, these stones also look unusual: if you cut a stone in half, then on a cut that is very similar to a saw cut from a tree, you can see the so-called age rings, which are concentrated around a small hard core.
Living stones, in addition to growing, are also capable of multiplying. It happens like this: after the surface of the stone gets wet, a small bulge appears on it. Over time, it grows, when the weight of the new stone becomes large enough, it breaks off from the mother.
The structure of the new trovants is the same as that of other, older stones. There is also a core inside, which is the main mystery for scientists.
There is a version according to which these stones may be an ancient inorganic form of life. When the planet's climate was much hotter, plants and animals could be made of inorganic materials. A lot of time has passed since that moment, but there is a possibility that we have just such a form of life.
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