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I just have trouble picturing herbivores eating stuff before grass evolved. That is just me though. What did they eat, apart from monkey puzzle trees. What covered the ground before grass evolved? Was it just a land of moss and shrubs? And monkey puzzle trees. It amazes me still that I can grow in my back garden a tree that was around at the same time as the brontosauruses.

Angiosperms (flowering plants) didn’t appear until the early Cretaceous, about 120 million years ago. You’ve landed right on a lot of the major landscape features - moss, shrubs, and monkey puzzle trees. But there were certainly many more plants that that. 

Ferns were very much present, and likely provided a lot of the ground cover. But not all ferns are ground-lying things: there are also tree ferns, like Glossopteris.

There were cycads - superficially fern-like plants. They were a lot more prevalent in prehistory than they are now, but they still exist:

They would’ve looked kind of like pineapples growing from the ground, like so:

There were also a lot of ginkgos, a lineage which today only contains one species.

There were lots of other conifers too, not just monkey puzzle trees. 

One type of tree prevalent in the Triassic, but not later, were Lepidodendron. This was actually likely related to club moss, and is notable for having scaly bark.

As for ground cover, Duane Nash has written quite a bit about that here, so I’ll link his article instead of just repeating his points. But suffice it to say that there are environments today which broadly resemble the mesozoic in terms of ground cover, and there were certainly areas that had little to no ground cover.

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y’all gotta stop adding “hey uh reblog this actually” to posts that were perfectly good on they own throws me back to 2012 with that “ALL MY FOLLOWERS BETTER REBLOG THIS IF YOU SCROLL PAST THIS YOU DONT HAVE A HEART!!1!!1!” shit

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The shoulder

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me at any given time: can we just buckle down and focus on the task at hand please???

my brain:

my brain: ……….ranibow sprimkle……………

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funniest part about the phrase “godless orgies” is the implication that there are, like, good christian orgies

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anyone: mentions (game/video/movie/book) 2, jokingly or not

me:

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y'all mind if i uhhh

play minecraft?

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[insp]

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my hair is growing out so now I look like Velma and Shaggy fused into a single being

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do you think civilians in the dc universe make memes about heroes dying then coming back to life?? because like– that happens a lot

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like at least twenty times more

We live in the cursed timeline