Greening of the Earth pushed way back in time
Monday, July 22, 2013 - 14:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Conventional scientific wisdom has it that plants and other creatures have only lived on land for about 500 million years, but a new study is pointing to evidence for life on land that is four times as old -- at 2.2 billion years ago and almost half way back to the inception of the planet.