One billion-year-old green seaweed fossils identified, relative of modern land plants

Monday, February 24, 2020 - 12:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Paleontologists have made a remarkable discovery in China: 1 billion-year-old micro-fossils of green seaweeds that could be related to the ancestor of the earliest land plants and trees that first developed 450 million years ago.

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