The Intertidal was a known paradise disguised as a trap for even the most stalwart and contemplative of Talamhgalie's lifeforms despite its abundance. Talamhgalie's predictable tides did make most creatures inhabiting it know what to do as they stayed at high tide, and kept at low. Beyond this Intertidal zone was a land untapped. Rocky shores are lapped by the blue, watery waves clasped not beyond the mistress of the sea, but instead by that of the air. Stromatolites of all sorts alongside microbial mats and whatever they brought along have existed, unknowingly trotting the low tide for millions of years. They were bathed in the white, bright light of their star, beaming against bodies of dead bacterium that formed substrate. This land was unimpressing, ripe, and perfect for the taking at first glance. However, like their intertidal arms, the land is as barren for the ocean's specimens as Mars is for humanity. Desiccation inherently destroyed the softbodies of all animalogues and plants that inhabited the seas of the time, so something else had to make due, something more...unique. The only things that even dared to poke themselves upon on the water surface were the most brave of earthmovers. Protoalgae have evolved and sat within the microbial mats and various ecosystems of the seas since before the onset of true Multicellularity. Primal to the most obscene extent, these creatures have been backbone for microscopic photosynthesizers, responsible for the blue-colored planet all saw as home. Them, alongside bacteriums, were typically found in flat colonies worldwide. Some didn't stay put as their niche, however. in the intertidal zone of craggy rocks far smaller than most islands, where tides crashed above, these algae would cooperate. With cell walls adept at keeping water in, it wasn't long before these walls would be put to their outside, allowing for them to shield from the harsh radiation and the threat of desiccation. Two tubes, both for more surface area. With these two traits, these Lichen would manage to sustain enough water on the predictable seas to inhabit the low tides-- and stay there. Our representative species, Kambalatubo Pairrankistro, has evolved an atypical structure; a hook-like holdfast tucked underneah itself as a seed is able to pierce into the rickety stone ground by way of acidic compounds breaking down the rock as it develops, eventually forming into said hook. These incisions would eventually allowing for the formation of land substrate overtime, though on these small rocks, it'd just break them down. Holdfasts were inefficient at the sandy beaches the mainlands ordained, albeit managing to grow off the bottom cliffsides leading into the deep ocean. These pioneering lichen remained whereever the water could come, and little past that.
