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[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 145 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] XOXOX@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago

Now consider wild fires during that period.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

Fire hadn't been invented yet.

[-] nikaaa@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

they said "wild fires"

just like wild horses, wild fires existed long before they were domesticated.

Was the world turning though?

Not the song I mean, but thanks for the ear worm.

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