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Informative, but slightly misleading. <pedant> Notice all the grass everywhere in that video. Grass wasn't around until 55 million years ago. The asteroid hit
by sillysaurusx 5y ago
Informative, but slightly misleading.
<pedant> Notice all the grass everywhere in that video. Grass wasn't around until 55 million years ago. The asteroid hit 66 million years ago. </pedant>
(I thought it was kinda neat that grass wasn't a thing for a long time...)
- slipframe 5y agoAccording to wikipedia, grass is now believed to be a bit older: > Before 2005, fossil findings indicated that grasses evolved around 55 million years ago. Findings of grass-like phytoliths in Cretaceous dinosaur coprolites from the latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) aged Lameta Formation of India have pushed this date back to 66 million years ago.[11][12] In 2011, revised dating of the origins of the rice tribe Oryzeae due to findings from the same deposit suggested a date as early as 107 to 129 Mya.[13] Still, that seems surprisingly recent. Ginkgo trees are almost 3x older.