There are fern trees, conifer trees, and flowering trees. Where are my moss trees?
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By the logic we are not humans...
no, we didn’t have mice and also ants evolve into humans… there’s one distinct line of ancestors…
it’s called convergent evolution. check out wikipedia
Same for roots, btw, just earlier.
So if you look at a tiny blade of grass and a gigantic tree its like looking at a Chihuahua and a brachiosaurus. And there are smaller things and bigger things in the aminal kingdum!
I think palm trees are a kind of grass
I didn’t know that and I agree
I'm a billion years, crabs will start turning into trees and trees into crabs. merging into the ubercreature
I imagine it'll look like paras
Paras is a fungus. Totally different thing.
Ah you're right. Torterra then
I'm a billion years
Damn. You look good for your age.
I'd argue, but I agree. I don't need to know how they look, if they're a billion years and capable of communicating, whatever state they're in looks good. Even if its a fungus posessed rot monster.
Like a tree, for example.
"ubercreature" excuse me, lichen would like a word with you
Also cool that for a period of like 60 million years, nothing decomposed dead trees. As they would die or fall over, they'd just stay there, piling up. This is where most oil came from. The massive amounts of trees stacking up before bacteria and fungus evolved to decomposed them. Imagine 60 million years worth of trees just lying around.
*Thought I'd add an edit, since this post got quite a few eyes on it: It was mostly coal that all those trees turned into. Not oil.
I thought that was coal
Mushrooms are the great undertaker, the great decomposer. The Langoliers. They are just waiting to eat you, and they're happy to share their fruits in the meantime. They're fattening you up. They can wait.
That Langoliers reference spotted in the wild!
Now we do the dance of joy!
I imagine dead trees were flammable, even back then. And oxygen levels were 15% higher. Can you imagine the forest fires?
Fire wasn't invented back then
Didn't those trees become coal, not oil?
Yes. I made mention of this in a reply to someone else as well. I'm not sure if my teacher (like 30 years ago) told us wrong or if I simply remembered it wrong.