First plants caused ice ages

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - 09:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

New research reveals how the arrival of the first plants 470 million years ago triggered a series of ice ages. Led by the Universities of Exeter and Oxford, the study is published today (1 February...

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