Convergent evolution is more common than you might think. Trees, for example, have separately evolved at least 100 times.
That was in a botanical garden in Australia. No idea what they were or how common they are. Blew my mind.
One of these trees has 47,000 stems:
> Most agree [...] that Pando encompasses 42.89 hectares (106 acres), weighs an estimated 6,000 metric tons (6,600 short tons) or 13.2 million pounds, and features an estimated 47,000 stems, which die individually and are replaced by genetically identical stems that are sent up from the tree's vast root system, a process known as "suckering". The root system is estimated to be several thousand years old, with habitat modeling suggesting a maximum age of 14,000 years and 16,000 years by the latest (2024) estimate.[
what nation?
I suppose you are actually talking of a time preceding prehistory by a fair lot!
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/david-attenborough-s-galapagos
Here is a YouTube playlist, I think it was episode 3, Evolution:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3iXsS5tZSZG4gcYrblBd...
Also see the wiki page mentioned in the sibling comment.
One of the largest trees I've ever personally seen was a mullberry on some long-abandoned land adjoining mine. But they're also a bush?
Can you explain more? Sounds interesting
As an aside there: the blog post briefly talks about birds. It turns out that membrane wings are much easier to evolve than feathered wings. There have been lots of membrane winged creatures (including "birds" with membrane wings in the Jurassic) but not nearly as many appearances of feathered wings.
(Tulips and oak trees are both angiosperms, flowering plants, and share a common angiosperm ancestor. Pine trees on the other hand are gymnosperms.)
Shivers …
In my imagined world of Halahala, silent stories have occupied prime real estate since 2005. I think of them like music without lyrics, jazz-like in the experience. The Cordyception is another riff on Halahala’s staple theme of nature, sustainability and our obsession with a certain ladder. An Attenborough documentary led me to these marvellous fungi called Cordyceps and the rest is pure Halahala. The fungi infect and take over specific insect-hosts – body and mind – commanding them to a high vantage point for dispersing spores.
I swear I drew this before the pandemic
—Appupen
https://venturebeat.com/2013/08/06/the-last-of-us-creators-i...
I for one welcome our new mushroom overlords.
