This is the best fucking video i CANNOT breathe
me at the car dealership
salesman: hello welcome to the car dealership
my brain: ask for the carfax. hurry
me: show me the carfax
salesman: for which car?
me: all of them
learning that most trees do not derive from a single lineage but actually only look and function superficially similarly due to convergent evolution is one of the most fucked up things i’ve ever learned and i will never be the same person as i was before i learned that
Oak trees are quite a bit more closely related to roses than they are to pine trees.
So are apple and cherry and pear trees! But palm trees are basically grass
Like many animal lines have gotten Huge and Lumpy in the ocean, so have plants gotten Tall and Woody in the sunlight.
