Or at least lichens.
Comment on Ray is basic.
bryophile@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Maybe it feels counter-intuitive to some that sharks were there before trees…
But I hope it is intuitive that there was water long before there was soil? Then it’s just a small step to realize life in water has had a much longer time to develop.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
bryophile@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s debatable, most sources estimate mosses to have been there before lichens. It’s all estimations spanning millions of years of course.
Mosses have leaves with chlorophyll though! Way more interesting in the context of there being trees or not. Lichens are just scabs on a rock.
Biffsbraincell@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Um say what? Lichens are a complex composite life form that is a symbiotic partnership of two separate organisms, a fungus and an algae or cyanobacterium. Scabs on a rock! The disrespect!
bryophile@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Obnoxious creatures they are, always trying to take the shine from mosses. Mosses don’t need symbiosis because they’re perfectly able to survive harsh conditions by themselves. There’s been hardly a need to change their perfect designs for millions of years.
Lichens just make new symbiotic relationships whenever they feel like it. They’re a promiscuous lot. Promiscuous scabs on a rock.
citizensongbird@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
[deleted]bryophile@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
We are more of a symbiont than we care to admit with more than half of our cells being non-human
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure they’ve never thought about what soil actually is and think it’s just been around forever since it’s just dirt.
bryophile@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Who are these people?