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>is only 70 million years old
Um bros what did Earth look like before grass?
Were dinosaurs’ feets always hurting because they were walking on rough ground?
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>>4774368
Let me just hop in my time machine and go find out for you
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>>4774368
the ground was covered in mosses and ferns instead
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>>4774368
>what is a meadow
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>>4774373
It’s a piece of grassland.
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>>4774371
Worse, it could’ve been covered by conifers instead.
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>>4774370
>Let me just hop in my time machine
>hop in
>Poorfag can't afford a wristwatch time machine
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>>4774954
Listen man not everyone can afford the timewatch+ that can perfectly cloak you from reality allowing you to view the past without butterfly affects
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>>4774370
>he doesn't know about the time portal in Tokyo piggu farm
ngmi
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>>4774368
touch moss
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>>4774371
That doesn’t sound so bad. So dinosaurs had it even better than us, feet-wise?
Maybe this is what caused them to become soft and weak.
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>>4774368
>In 2018, a study described grass microfossils extracted from the teeth of the hadrosauroid dinosaur Equijubus normani from northern China, dating to the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous approximately 113–100 million years ago, which were found to belong to primitive lineages within Poaceae, similar in position to the Anomochlooideae. These are currently the oldest known grass fossils.[1]

>~113mya
and if they existed then, that means they evolved even earlier.
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have you never seen a forest with no grass cover
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>>4775354
>"hAvE yOu EvEr BeEn In A-"

Yeah stfu up man.
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>>4775390
dis nigga never been to the jurassic period
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>>4775407
I've for goddamn sure been in Jur Ass before though motherfucker.
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>>4775447
Did you also say "ick" because she was on her period?
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>>4775447
>Jur Ass
is that some sort of old dead Incan city?
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>>4775472
He's saying he's been in your ass before dude.
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>>4775472
why incan?
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>>4775507
i've never felt it so it must have been in his dreams. sad he thinks dreams are reality
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>>4774954
>wristwatch time machine
>Trend chasing peasant doesn't have a built in lounge, Bar, and Kitchen with staff all in the glory of AC.
Have fun never seeing the the beauty of underwater life or seeing the Earth form.
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>>4775472
Jur Ass is grass
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>>4775031
>primitive lineages within Poaceae, similar in position to the Anomochlooideae
>grasses have been around since the Early Cretaceous
>survived the K-Pg mass extinction event but rebound massively after it
Hardy little guys. I'd say the lack of flowers is among the main reasons they are so widespread.
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>>4775986
heh
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>>4775390
>stfu up
>shut the fuck up up
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One time I saw a truck that had a bumper sticker that said, Ass, Grass, or Gas.
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>>4774368
The earliest grasses weren't even nice, soft turf grasses like the ones that 4chan posters really need to go outside and touch. They were all tough old nasty grasses.
That's why pic related is so inaccurate.
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>>4776609
"Pic related" being this...

>>4776424
>One time I saw a truck that had a bumper sticker that said, Ass, Grass, or Gas.
No-one rides for free! That's the truth, brother!
But again, not botanically accurate. Because Cannabis is in the hemp family, Cannabaceae, not the grass family, Poaceae.

>>4776068
>survived the K-Pg mass extinction event but rebound massively after it
>I'd say the lack of flowers is among the main reasons they are so widespread
Uh... but grasses are, of course, flowering plants. They are mainly wind-pollinated but they all still have flowers.
Flowering trees only started taking over from gymnosperm trees shortly before the Yucatan cock-rock, and herbaceous angiosperms like grasses only really took off afterwards.
If you're going to big up grasses for surviving the K-T you also gotta shout out ferns and cycads. Come on!



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