• abbadon420@lemm.ee
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    9 个月前

    Wood is notoriously hard to digest. After wood evolved, it took millions of years before funghi and bacteria evolved the ability to decompose it. And that’s why we have oil now.

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      There was a point during that millions of years where there were areas of thousands of feet deep layers of dead trees. It still boggles my mind.

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        Would you be willing to find a good article explaining this further? This sounds really neat and I’d like to know how scientists figured this out :O