It always staggers me when I remember that for roughly sixty million years during the Carboniferous Period, there were trees but no microorganisms capable of decomposing them.
Just sixty million years of branches falling off and trees falling down and… just sitting there on the ground, not rotting at all.
It always staggers me when I remember that for roughly sixty million years during the Carboniferous Period, there were trees but no microorganisms capable of decomposing them.
Just sixty million years of branches falling off and trees falling down and… just sitting there on the ground, not rotting at all.
Now consider wild fires during that period.
Fire hadn’t been invented yet.
they said “wild fires”
just like wild horses, wild fires existed long before they were domesticated.
You just ruined the song.
Was the world turning though?
Not the song I mean, but thanks for the ear worm.
they must have been wild
It was a lot more fun to believe that coal was crushed dinosaurs.
We have oil for that
Sus: bacteria predate trees by like… a lot. There may not be many fossils of them:-), but surely they would eat whatever they could.