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minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 days agoIt means our knowledge of their ancestry cuts off at that point. Anything else is speculation without additional information.
minus-squarethanksforallthefish@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·3 days agoThat is exactly what the comic says but its not true, fossil records for ferns go back to the devonian several 100 million years before the Cretaceous https://www.ontariobeneathourfeet.com/dinosaur-salad-ancient-extant-ferns https://www.amerfernsoc.org/about-ferns
minus-squareturtlesareneat@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 days agoThat’s why he’s so cranky in frame 4, he’s realizing his piece of shit brain lied to him again.
It means our knowledge of their ancestry cuts off at that point. Anything else is speculation without additional information.
That is exactly what the comic says but its not true, fossil records for ferns go back to the devonian several 100 million years before the Cretaceous
https://www.ontariobeneathourfeet.com/dinosaur-salad-ancient-extant-ferns
https://www.amerfernsoc.org/about-ferns
That’s why he’s so cranky in frame 4, he’s realizing his piece of shit brain lied to him again.