I heard this on The Infinite Monkey Cage yesterday and had to look it up and share.
Sharks are older than trees
https://www.sea.museum/2020/01/16/ten-interesting-facts-about-sharks
https://www.sea.museum/2020/01/16/ten-interesting-facts-about-sharks
I heard this on The Infinite Monkey Cage yesterday and had to look it up and share.
3 Comments
protist@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 3y
This is a dubious claim, and a hard one to prove conclusively either way. The first trees are likely older than 350 MYA, eg Archaeopteris macilenta, which lived during the second half of the Devonian around 400 MYA. As for the first sharks, modern sharks evolved in the Jurassic, around 200 MYA. However:
Also, prior to vascular trees evolving, there were other tree-like plants and fungi that existed on land, and also trees have evolved independently possibly hundreds of times because they are not a monophyletic clade like sharks, but are instead represented in clades across all vascular plants
christophski@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 3y
The best way to get the right answer on the Internet, is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong answer 😄
Chickenstalker@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Well, yeah. Life began in the oceans and sharks were one of the first fishes. Land organisms evolved much later.