Article: STUDY: 1ST LAND PLANTS 475 MILLION YEARS ...
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  September 17, 2003 ;     354 words ... ... evidence yet that plants appeared on land about 475 million years ago, 50 million years earlier than fossils had established before ... University of Sheffield in England. The oldest fossils of land plants themselves are about 425 million years old and the age discrepancy ...

Article: Researchers find closest living relative of first land ...
M2 Presswire;  December 14, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... closest living relative of first land plants (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS ... 14122001 Some 470 million years ago, the first land plants emerged from prehistoric waters ... living relatives of the first land plants. The scientists have moved ...

Article: Oldest fungus found, link to land plants.
United Press International;  September 15, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... masses by the first land plants is believed to have ... 505-440 million years ago." However, no pieces of land plants large enough to ... fact that the first land plants mainly consisted ... Twenty-five years ago, researchers Pirozynski ...

Article: A Conserved Transcription Factor Mediates Nuclear Control of ...
Plant Cell;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... plesiomorphy within land plants, gene function was ... gt;400 million years ago. In support of this ... within or before the land plants, we assessed gene ... from the rest of the land plants >400 million years ago and are the most ...

Article: Mass extinction 250 mln years ago might hold clue ...
The Hindustan Times;  August 12, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... extinction of species approximately 250 million years ago might hold clues to current global carbon cycle changes ... other end-Permian fossil formations 250 million years ago. Land plants and animals suffered similar losses. In his study ...

Article: Plants evolved ability to adapt to environmental change 300 mln ...
The Hindustan Times;  July 13, 2007 ;     496 words ... ... cues some 300 million years ago with the evolution of the flowering plants. All land plants evolved from an aquatic ... evolved some 400 million years ago, were the first plants ... plants) 300 million years ago that plants evolved interacting ...

Article: Earliest plants arose at least 475 million years ...
Life Science Weekly;  October 6, 2003 ;     518 words ... ... suggest that the earliest land plants arose at least 475 million years ago, adding 50 million years ... that evidence of the first land plants exists as microscopic spores ... what proved to be miniscule land plants containing large numbers ...