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TIL that Sharks are older than Trees - Sharks have been around for at least 400 million years and have survived all five global mass extinctions. Fossil evidence shows that the earliest sharks evol... (www.zmescience.com)
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[โ€“] ohlaph@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine being older than trees. That's wild.

[โ€“] SpaceCrumbs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

After the trees showed up it took another 60 million years for tree eating bacteria to evolve which is why we have coal.

As explained here