there 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!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Naz@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
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