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zkmontoday at 6:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

Avocado. I heard it was dinosaur food. Read an article somewhere that says Avacdo trees think that dinosaurs are still around.


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SAI_Peregrinustoday at 6:44 PM

Funnily enough they're toxic to all remaining dinosaurs.

SideburnsOfDoomtoday at 6:46 PM

> Avocado. I heard it was dinosaur food.

Nope, and this is trivial to check. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado#Taxonomy_and_evolution

The proposed seed dispersers are now-extinct mammalian megafauna. Much more recent than the dinosaurs - 10k to 100k years ago.

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