Lichen evolved on two tracks, like marsupials and mammals

Monday, May 2, 2011 - 14:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Lichen -- those drab, fuzzy growths found on rocks and trees -- aren't as cuddly and charismatic as kangaroos or intriguing as opossums, but they could be a fungal equivalent, at least evolutionarily.

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