A discovery of seaweed-like fossils in southern China may be among the oldest plants discovered to date. These samples predate by 20 to 56 million years earlier existing evidence. To read more go to Wired Science: Simple Seaweeds May Be Earth’s First Plants | Wired Science | Wired.com.
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