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    The ocean was purple once, and another time the only thing taller than little bushes were twenty foot tall mushrooms shaped like asparagus

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      And 80ft horsetails

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        Seriously?! 80ft horsetails? I knew they were a prehistoric plant that can grow through asphalt but had no idea they got that big

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          https://web.archive.org/web/20090714050011/http://www.fiu.edu/~chusb001/GiantEquisetum/Intro_Equisetum.html

          Amazing read.

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            That really was great, thank you!

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          Now this explains what happened to all the roads back then.

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        scary to think of how big the horses themselves must have been

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      Ok now, I get that it’s a theory but you can’t just assume this one is 100.

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