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[–] 131 points 7 months ago (12 children)

Sharks are older than trees

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  • [–] 133 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Sharks are older than fire.

    Sharks existed before there was enough O2 in the atmosphere to sustain a fire.

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  • [+] -15 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Also trees existed before bacteria did. So when a tree died it just fell over and sat there for a while. Never decomposing

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago

    The earliest trees evolved around 400 million years ago.

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    The ancestors of bacteria were unicellular microorganisms that were the first forms of life to appear on Earth, about 4 billion years ago.[23] For about 3 billion years, most organisms were microscopic, and bacteria and archaea were the dominant forms of life.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago*

    that isnt true, there was no decomposing fungi, bacteria that evolved yet at the time of the carbiniferous peroid, and those "tree" were actually gigantic gametophytes(posessing half the chromosomes) of early bryophytes. the actual first tree dint evolve til after that peroid.

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