Living Fossils at Mercer Botanical Garden Houston, Texas

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ม.ค. 2025

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  • @allmightydoggo1534
    @allmightydoggo1534 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Nice video! This is a pretty cool garden.

  • @LeitrabiParody
    @LeitrabiParody 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    😍

  • @luckylady7542
    @luckylady7542 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Very interesting little trip back in time. You really plan out some good trips for us. Thank you❤

    • @earthandtime5817
      @earthandtime5817  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thanks for the kind words. Really enjoyed making this one.

  • @rikspector
    @rikspector 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I love the ancient plants.
    Ginkgo's have male and female species, both required to produce
    fruit and seed.
    It takes two to tangle:)
    Cheers,
    Rik Spector

    • @earthandtime5817
      @earthandtime5817  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Ha. Thanks for the comment. I was fascinated by the history of ginkgo. Need to learn more.

  • @lynnewilliams6659
    @lynnewilliams6659 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great interesting, fascinating video. I liked the lizard chilling on the sign, lol.

    • @earthandtime5817
      @earthandtime5817  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@lynnewilliams6659 thanks for the kind words. The lizard was really cute!

  • @pizzafrenzyman
    @pizzafrenzyman หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    That cypress might be direct descendant from one of the old ones in the petrified forest. Imagine that.

    • @earthandtime5817
      @earthandtime5817  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That is a cool thought. I like it. Thanks for sharing.

  • @bluwtrgypsy
    @bluwtrgypsy หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My weekly lesson. What an interesting place and such an assortment. I'm in a white winter wonderland right now, so its nice to see vegetation. We have beautiful ferns here in the summer, however, Norfolk Island Pine are indoor houseplants here. Magnolia are the first to bloom - always a sign of spring. Love the fossils you showed. The oldest known bee fossil, being a stingless bee, from New Jersey, is 96-74 million years old.
    Another great video, Garrett. Thank you.

    • @earthandtime5817
      @earthandtime5817  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you so much for sharing. I appreciate you taking the time to comment. I love how much you know about plants and bees! I learned from you as well today. Which is why I love doing this. We all get to learn together!

  • @makaimaukahasopinions848
    @makaimaukahasopinions848 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I loved this video. Aloha from the Big Island of Hawai'i

  • @zhuangsaur227
    @zhuangsaur227 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Well Down Under in our Terra Australis we have the Woolemi Pine haha and Lungfish and Stromatalites haha

  • @pizzafrenzyman
    @pizzafrenzyman หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Those palms don't look very edible for the large vegetarians.

    • @earthandtime5817
      @earthandtime5817  หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I always wondered that also. How did the big Dino’s get enough nutrients out of these types of plants? Sounds like I need to do some research and another video 😉

    • @pizzafrenzyman
      @pizzafrenzyman หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@earthandtime5817 Consider that most vegetarians today (horses, cattle, deer, etc) eat grasses. The tree/bush eaters are like Giraffes and Elephants. Those would like the big long neck dinosaurs in terms of consumption & nutrition. Big bellies are necessary to digest massive amounts of leaves to squeeze out the minimal nutrition needed for survival.

  • @zhuangsaur227
    @zhuangsaur227 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's amazing how millions of years of evolution have the secret really of simplicity and adapting ever so slightly and yet the basic form and feature is simple ... fossil plants and their descendants such as the Ginkgoes or Ferns are not so different afterall ... just like prehistoric Sharks Crocs to modern Sharks Crocs

    • @earthandtime5817
      @earthandtime5817  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@zhuangsaur227 good point and I need to keep learning about paloebotany. Was fascinating to learn about for this episode.

  • @zhuangsaur227
    @zhuangsaur227 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    To think Ginkgoes and Cycads and Ferns and many more yet.... Nautilus... Sharks... Fishes...

    • @earthandtime5817
      @earthandtime5817  หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@zhuangsaur227 a lot of contemporaries.