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2.4 billion-yr-old fungus-like fossils found


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Earliest Fungus-Like Fossils Date Back 2.4 Billion Years

An international group of scientists says it has discovered 2.4 billion-year-old fungus-like fossils — approximately 2 billion years older than any previous fungal specimen and a billion or more years earlier than scientists currently think fungi first evolved. If accurate, the finding could reset the spacing of some of the earliest branches on the tree of life.

Read more: Live Science

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Revealed: 2.4 BILLION-year-old fungus fossils are the earliest examples of multi-cellular life ever found

    Geologists uncovered the lifeforms in samples taken from an ancient seabed
    They are believed to be the oldest fungi ever found by around 1.2 billion years
    If confirmed, they would be the first fossil traces of eukaryotes ever unearthed


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4443396/Geologists-unearth-earliest-evidence-multicellular-life.html#ixzz4fKA1QD5X


 

 

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