Fascinating and informative in equal measure! We consider this era as one where the tetrapods rule, but that's a bit presumptuous and chauvinistic of us. What's a few hundred million years? No doubt the Ediacarans might have thought (had they brains) that they ruled the roost in their time. The true managers of the biosphere for the last few billion years have been the bacteria. But they are modest and engaged in their eternal war with the phages. We tetrapods are just a sideshow! 🙂
Fascinating and informative in equal measure! We consider this era as one where the tetrapods rule, but that's a bit presumptuous and chauvinistic of us. What's a few hundred million years? No doubt the Ediacarans might have thought (had they brains) that they ruled the roost in their time. The true managers of the biosphere for the last few billion years have been the bacteria. But they are modest and engaged in their eternal war with the phages. We tetrapods are just a sideshow! 🙂