3 ms·until trees with their wood laid waste to this balance? at least until fungi figured hoe to break lingin?by tempe1h1 4y agountil trees with their wood laid waste to this balance? at least until fungi figured hoe to break lingin?fit2rule 4y agolkrubner 4y agoYour dates are off by 100 million years. You're confusing the late Paleozoic for the late Mesozoic. Trees came first, the explosion of land-based bio-diversity happened more than 100 million years later.