Kaputnik [he/him] to main • 4 years agoMushroom 🍄 post : Protaxites, giant mushroom stalks that grew over 300 million years ago before the evolution of treesimagemessage-square22 fedilinkarrow-up199file-text
arrow-up199imageMushroom 🍄 post : Protaxites, giant mushroom stalks that grew over 300 million years ago before the evolution of treesKaputnik [he/him] to main • 4 years agomessage-square22 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePhish [he/him, any]hexbear1·4 years agoI wonder what stopped fungus from evolving that way again. Weather maybe? link
minus-squareMardoniush [she/her]hexbear6·4 years agoVascular plants can probably outcompete it. And the Carboniferous, where wood didn't decompose yet and piled up miles deep probably wasn't super fun for species of Fungi evolved to eat rotting moss. link
I wonder what stopped fungus from evolving that way again. Weather maybe?
Vascular plants can probably outcompete it. And the Carboniferous, where wood didn't decompose yet and piled up miles deep probably wasn't super fun for species of Fungi evolved to eat rotting moss.