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.
I suppose you are actually talking of a time preceding prehistory by a fair lot!
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
(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.
