Land Plants Arose Earlier Than Thought

[Oxytropidoceras]

Land plants arose earlier than thought—and may have had a bigger

impact on the evolution of animals By Elizabeth Pennisi, Feb. 19, 2018

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/land-plants-arose-earlier-thought-and-may-have-had-bigger-impact-evolution-animals

 

Plants may have colonized Earth's surface 100 MILLION years earlier

than previously thought, Press association, Daily Mail, Feb. 19, 2018

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5410161/New-research-pushes-history-land-plants-100-million-years.html

 

Morris, JL, Puttick, M, Clark, J, Edwards, D, Kenrick, P, Pressel, S,

Wellman, CH, Yang, Z, Harald, S & Donoghue, P, 2018, ‘The timescale

of early land plant evolution: controlling for competing topologies and

dating strategies on divergence time estimates’. Proceedings of the

National Academy of Sciences.

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/earthsciences/people/mark-n-puttick/pub/142491407

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/earthsciences/people/mark-n-puttick/index.html

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hmmmmmm.

I'd like a bit more evidence, i think.