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Apropos of nothing but flowers evolved at about the same time as Tyrannosaurus Rex, so you can imagine a T-Rex walking through a field of wildflowers at sunrise
by sandspar 3y ago
Apropos of nothing but flowers evolved at about the same time as Tyrannosaurus Rex, so you can imagine a T-Rex walking through a field of wildflowers at sunrise, its legs wet with flowers' dew.
- vundercind 3y agoNo evidence of grass before the very tail end of the Cretaceous, either.
- dredmorbius 3y agoAnd, as the response to your comment notes, grass evolved only very late in the age of the dinosaurs. When you think of the most prevalent varieties of terrestrial plant life on Earth today, particularly agricultural crops (wheat, rice, maize, all grasses), much of it is very recent evolutionary developments, and of that, vastly further developed by artificial selection and hybridisation by humans. Legumes are also flowering plants, and seem to date back roughly 79--74 mya: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabaceae#Evolution,_phylogeny_and_taxonomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabaceae#Evolution,_phylogeny_...>