Project leads to major discovery about earliest plant life on Earth
(Nebraska Today) - Plant life first emerged on land about 550 million years ago ... which made possible all other terrestrial ...
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Giant, Mysterious Spires Ruled the Earth Long Before Trees Did. What Exactly Are These Odd-Looking Fossils?
For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...
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Reconsidering early plant life
The world may need to start thinking differently about plants, according to a report in the journal Science by researchers who took a fresh look at spore-like microfossils with characteristics that ...
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Fungi Are Responsible For Life On Land As We Know It
From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in ... Fungi were some of the first complex life forms on land, mining rocks for mineral nourishment, slowly turning them ...
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410-million-year-old plant fossil sheds light on Earth's ecological shift
Around 430 million years ago, plants began their transition from ocean to land, a process that significantly transformed the Earth's ecological environment, according to experts. "Terrestrial ...