@til Today I learned that 400 million years ago, the largest land organism was kinda like a giant sausage sticking out of the ground. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototaxites
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Can we vote for that?
Make Pangea Sausage Again
I had an archaeologist friend some years ago with a “Reunite Gondwanaland” bumper sticker on his car. One day a Florida redneck in a giant pickup pulled up next to us at a red light, stuck his head out the window and yelled “yo, fuck Gondwanaland!”