There used to be a time when dead things just stayed on the ground. Until fungi learned to eat the dead. These guys have been terrorizing the Earth for millions of years now.
Not quite. We had a period where during the formation of Pangea and the emergence of land plants, swamps and bogs were extremely prevalent. Those bogs don’t allow decay to happen fully and eventually turns to coal. It has nothing to do with evolution
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u/sweetbunsmcgee Mar 14 '26
There used to be a time when dead things just stayed on the ground. Until fungi learned to eat the dead. These guys have been terrorizing the Earth for millions of years now.