Fascinating! But I find it hard to believe that microbes, having had countless millennia to hone their craft, would leave giant piles of free food lying around until only a few thousand years ago.
I appreciate the skepticism. But strange things have been known to happen! For instance, for about 60 million years during the Carboniferous, trees couldn't rot, as lignin-digesting fungi hadn't evolved yet, so forests just piled up, slowly compressing down underneath the earth. And that's where coal comes from!
You almost had me there… please do more!
Fascinating! But I find it hard to believe that microbes, having had countless millennia to hone their craft, would leave giant piles of free food lying around until only a few thousand years ago.
I appreciate the skepticism. But strange things have been known to happen! For instance, for about 60 million years during the Carboniferous, trees couldn't rot, as lignin-digesting fungi hadn't evolved yet, so forests just piled up, slowly compressing down underneath the earth. And that's where coal comes from!