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[–] [email protected] 139 points 2 months ago (15 children)

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 79 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Now consider wild fires during that period.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 71 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fire hadn't been invented yet.

[–] nikaaa 8 points 2 months ago

they said "wild fires"

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

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You just ruined the song.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Was the world turning though?

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] affiliate 18 points 2 months ago

they must have been wild

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