A Billion-Year-Old Fungus May Hold Clues to Life’s Arrival on Land (Published 2019)
A cache of microscopic fossils from the Arctic hints that fungi evolved long before plants. Scientists reported on Wednesday that they have discovered the oldest known fossils of fungi, a finding that may reshape our understanding of how life first arrived on land from the oceans. Fungi are the …
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