|
DailyGoodFor the last 27 years, DailyGood newsletters have offered a daily email that inspires you to respond to life with creativity and kindness. To join a community of 148,369 subscribers, subscribe here. |
Mar 13, 2011
"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday." --Pearl Buck
Seaweeds May Be Earth's First Plants
A trove of seaweed-like fossils unearthed in southern China may be some of the oldest plants ever discovered. Until now the earliest definitive evidence of complex creatures resembling modern organisms was about 580 million years old. This new series of fossils predates those by anywhere from 20 million to 56 million years. "It's not the oldest multicellular life," remarks a co-author of the study. "But it is a collection of the oldest diverse, complex and macroscopic multicellular life."
BE THE CHANGE
Uncover the history hidden in your surroundings.
