Innerworld@lemmy.world to Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 days agoScientists have confirmed that a 26ft tall, tree-trunk-shaped organism, first discovered in Scotland in 1843, isn't a fungus or plant, but an entirely distinct evolutionary branch of lifewww.telegraph.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1173arrow-down15cross-posted to: science@lemmy.world
arrow-up1168arrow-down1external-linkScientists have confirmed that a 26ft tall, tree-trunk-shaped organism, first discovered in Scotland in 1843, isn't a fungus or plant, but an entirely distinct evolutionary branch of lifewww.telegraph.co.ukInnerworld@lemmy.world to Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square22fedilinkcross-posted to: science@lemmy.world
minus-squarecalliope@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 days agoThis has absolutely blown my mind! This looks exactly like the kind of whose ancestors would, over millions of years, eventually mutate to become a tree. The polished fossil in the Wikipedia article looks a shocking amount like wood!
minus-squareNaz@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·22 hours agoDude; I think you’re absolutely correct. It looks like a proto-tree Also: Trees aren’t a uniform genus, but this goes to show, on any planet that has photosynthesis, trees will eventually evolve spontaneously
minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agothere were “trees” before actual trees evolved. in the carbiniferous, mostly from lycophytes,
This has absolutely blown my mind!
This looks exactly like the kind of whose ancestors would, over millions of years, eventually mutate to become a tree.
The polished fossil in the Wikipedia article looks a shocking amount like wood!
Dude; I think you’re absolutely correct.
It looks like a proto-tree
Also: Trees aren’t a uniform genus, but this goes to show, on any planet that has photosynthesis, trees will eventually evolve spontaneously
there were “trees” before actual trees evolved. in the carbiniferous, mostly from lycophytes,