Plants on Earth...100 Million Years Ago?


 
   Our beliefs of life forms on Earth and when they formed might be changed after this. Scientists have found a plant that has gone back to 420 million years ago!! But new research has shown that plants have actually been forming hundreds of millions of years before that!! As we know plants are major contributors to chemical weathering and if a key process in the carbon cycle. This would then regulate the Earth's atmosphere and climate over millions of years. So this means that our views on Earths biosphere might totally be wrong. Even though more research does need to be had, we can be sure that there is many things still to be learned about Earth and it's biosphere.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180219155015.html

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