Since Prototaxites were discovered in the fossil record in 1843, scientists have debated whether they were early land plants, ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Today) - Plant life first emerged on land about 550 million years ago, and an international research ...

This group of organisms has received major attention because when researchers compared data about land plants with data about these algae, they could trace back to the very first plants on land.

Mosses were among the first land plants to evolve out of the ocean roughly 450 million years ago. They grow everywhere, from the world’s harshest landscapes to cracks in the sidewalk.

from which other land plants are thought to have originated. “I think [the paper] is interesting for a few reasons,” says paleobiologist Philip Donoghue of the University of Bristol who was not ...

In fact, neither land plants nor terrestrial animals would exist ... Fungi were some of the first complex life forms on land, mining rocks for mineral nourishment, slowly turning them into what ...

The Paleozoic era's Silurian period saw animals and plants finally emerge on land. But first there was a period of biological regrouping following the disastrous climax to the Ordovician.