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Billion-year-old green algae is an ancestor of all plants on Earth

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Live Science

Publication Date
2020-02-25

The oldest green seaweed on record, the ancestor of all land plants, lived about 1 billion years ago, a new study finds. Scientists have discovered the fossils of what may be the oldest green algae ever known. The newfound seaweed — called Proterocladus antiquus — lived about a billion years ago.

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