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Hm, in small animals my previous point of a 2D vs 3D space is also valid. Large land prey animals "only" have to look from side to side to spot predators. Small animals have to look in all 3 dimensions, like sharks

Haha, I'm not a bird person and didn't bother to look it up. Thanks for the correction!

Although they still don't look fully front-facing like e.g. in cats, right?

Cuuuute!!!

That's basically correct, yes! The baby parts are the gametophytes and they then use their male and female parts to produce a new zygote, which will grow into a sporophyte. This sporophyte is what we know as a fern. It will produce and finally release many many spores, which are the "airdrop baby parts".

They also have to orient themselves in a truely 3D landscape, unlike terrestrial predators who hunt on basically a 2D plane. ~~Birds of prey (with the exception of owls) also don't have front-facing eyes, probably for similar reasons~~* (and they're stereoscopic vision also works a bit different I think with very different points of focus).

*see comments below

Using apps like Grayjay or Newpipe allow you to just subscribe to certain channels and don't see any recommendations at all. I haven't used the YT algorithm in years and also don't get any ads. Instead, I just watch the content creators I like and nothing else. On grayjay you can also add other services like Nebula, so the variety is even higher. I really don't get how people can watch YT with the algorithm and with ads, but it seems too much effort for most people to look for alternatives.

Wow! What is the lower plant? Are the upper two a lycopod and Selaginella?

Edit: oh, it's Isoetes, isnt it? So all three lineages (Lycopodiales, Selaginellales and Isoetales) are present here, got it.

If anyone else wonders:

• Talpa is an actual genus of moles: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talpa_(mammal)
• defossus is latin and according to Wiktionary it means "excavated, planted or hidden": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/defossus (fossus coming from Latin fodiō meaning "to dig; to pierce; to goad", https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fossus)

If you're being pressured/manipulated/... the person doing so is responsible for that, so culpable as well - but not in place - if applicable.

This would then also be valid for young people being brainwashed into blindly following orders. Nonetheless, I feel like they still are partly responsible. And all those soldiers abusing their power and committing atrocities are also responsible for that (although the structure they are in also enables and produces this abuse).

There are a lot of fossilized records. You can see various examples of whole trunks or roots here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigillaria?wprov=sfla1

Alliaria petiolata is a pretty common herb in Europe (at least here in Germany) and it is related to mustard, cabbage plants and rapeseed. It does have a garlicky smell, but I wouldn't really use it as an replacement to real garlic. Garlic plants are not related to it at all and are very different. Allium ursinum (wild garlic) on the other hand is also pretty common here and actually tastes like garlic.

To me the coolest ones are certainly any prehistoric Lycopodiopsida, like the Sigillaria shown here!