Post #2639747
2023-11-26 07:40 UTC
@hugo@social.treehouse.systems Wait, sharks are older than trees? That is seriously cool.
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@nev@flipping.rocks 2023-11-26 17:42
@caranha@scholar.social @hugo@social.treehouse.systems caveat: the first shark we'd probably recognize as a shark didn't appear till the Devonian, a mere 380 mya https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/shark-evolution-a-450-million-year-timeline.html
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@UlrikNyman@mastodon.social 2023-11-26 18:18
@caranha@scholar.social @hugo@social.treehouse.systems And trees is not a species, but a strategy employed by multiple different unrelated species.
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@phosphan@ruhr.social 2023-11-28 07:41
@caranha@scholar.social @hugo@social.treehouse.systems The time difference from first sharks to first trees is about the same as the time difference from the dinosaur extinction to today.