By the way I have always wondered what a mighty oak tree was before it was a tree? Do we have transitional fossils that show it crawling out of the muck and gradually rising up to the upright amazing mighty oak tree that it is today?
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"By the way I have always wondered what a mighty oak tree was before it was a tree?"
I'll go out on a limb (bad pun, I know) and say it was an acorn.
"Do we have transitional fossils that show it crawling out of the muck and gradually rising up to the upright amazing mighty oak tree that it is today?"
In my experience trees don't generally crawl.
Green said:
Am I the only one who read his name as "slaveandhappy"?
I had to go back and read the user name, although I think you're closer to what it should be.
There are fossils of many plants, starting, as you might expect with simple bryophytes, mosses, liverworts and the like and passing through ferns and tree ferns, horsetails and relatives, followed by modern grasses, trees and flowers.
Large trees presumably arose via smaller trees and shrubs, originating with plants that had tougher, woodier stems than their competitors and were thus harder for animals to eat or able to hold their leaves higher to the sun.
Do we have transitional fossils that show it crawling out of the muck and gradually rising up to the upright amazing mighty oak tree that it is today?
Shrubs and bushes. They may not have crawled up out of the ocean, but they seemed to have done the trick quite nicely.
The stupid strong in this one is. :/
If you set up a *realllllllly* long series of time-lapse photography, you *could* get a record of the acorn turning into a sapling turning into a mighty oak. Tricky to get a transitional fossil of something that is still growing tho...
if you're asking what it was evolutionarily (which you almost are, but in a very mislead way) it was a slightly different type of tree that could still be considered oak. Going back further it would converge with other evolutionary paths and be a different species of tree. Plants did not evolve from animals.
I have always wondered what a mighty oak tree was before it was a tree
an acorn?
Do we have transitional fossils that show it crawling out of the muck and gradually rising up to the upright amazing mighty oak tree that it is today?
Well, trees don't crawl, but a transitional species would be a fern. Yeah, yeah I know, if Oaks evolved from ferns, why are there still ferns.
A little late in the day for this one, but erm... this without bones don't tend to leave fossils. You see, fossils are the bits that survive the crushing pressures of the rock and mud, whereas trees and vegetation rot and become "oil"
So no, we don't have fossils, but where do you think all that lovely crude came from?
Some plant seeds to have the ability to crawl, its neat. Although I wouldn't say they were sentiently moving about, just random jumping, but more often than not this would get you further away from your source than just falling.
Why, yes we do little child, very observant of you.
Oh the Tooth Fairie or Santa Claus? Well that's fairly likely now, isnt it? They actually do something.
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