Tuesday, 14 March 2017

World's oldest plant-like fossils discovered

(PLOS) Scientists at the Swedish Museum of Natural History have found fossils of 1.6 billion-year-old probable red algae. The spectacular finds, publishing on March 14 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, indicate that advanced multicellular life evolved much earlier than previously thought.

from EurekAlert! - Archaeology http://ift.tt/2mJSQm4

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