Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Fossils from 1.6 billion years ago may be oldest-known plants

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossils unearthed in India that are 1.6 billion years old and look like red algae may represent the earliest-known plants, a discovery that could force scientists to reassess the timing of when major lineages in the tree of life first appeared on Earth.

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