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> Avocado. I heard it was dinosaur food. Nope, and this is trivial to check. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado#Taxonomy_and_evolution https://en.wi
by SideburnsOfDoom 8mo ago
> Avocado. I heard it was dinosaur food.
Nope, and this is trivial to check. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado#Taxonomy_and_evolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado#Taxonomy_and_evolution
The proposed seed dispersers are now-extinct mammalian megafauna. Much more recent than the dinosaurs - 10k to 100k years ago.
- tgbugs 8mo agoA great related article on mammalian megafauna and plants. https://www.americanforests.org/article/the-trees-that-miss-the-mammoths/ https://www.americanforests.org/article/the-trees-that-miss-...
- linksnapzz 8mo agoThere's a book; Ghosts of Evolution, that discusses this in depth. Wasn't dinosaurs, it was probably some kind of proboscidian gompothere.