Land plants may have evolved much earlier than we thought

Mongabay
Feb 21, 2018, 5:51 pm211 pts
A new study drastically upends conventional wisdom about when plants colonized land, pushing back the date about 80 million years to around half a billion years ago. The new date more closely aligns with when land animals emerged, and could help advance our understanding of how and when Earth’s physical and…

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