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Ah, I've not heard of ants as a cause for the fall of the carboniferous era. Sounds plausible tho. I thought it was mushrooms and their eventual discovery of ho
by kleer001 6y ago
Ah, I've not heard of ants as a cause for the fall of the carboniferous era. Sounds plausible tho. I thought it was mushrooms and their eventual discovery of how to dissolve lignin.
https://www.astrobio.net/also-in-news/fungi-marked-the-end-of-the-coal-age/ https://www.astrobio.net/also-in-news/fungi-marked-the-end-o...
- btilly 6y agoThe earliest known ants are around 100 million years ago. The carboniferous era ended around 300 million years ago. Ant as an explanation doesn't seem plausible to me.