First plants went ashore more than 500 million years ago (IMAGE)

Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf

First plants went ashore more than 500 million years ago

Caption

The diversity of flora and fauna as we know them today and the substrate on which thrive are thanks to a single species of algae that first went ashore more than 500 million years ago. This and all other drawings in the publication are by the paper’s first author, Dr. Mona Schreiber.

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Mona Schreiber

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