For the first four billion years of Earth's history, our planet's continents would have been devoid of all life except microbes. All of this changed with the origin of land plants from their pond scum ...
In one of the hottest places on the planet, a modest desert shrub has quietly rewritten what scientists thought plants could ...
Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that the evolution of land plants caused a sudden shift in the composition of Earth’s continents. The Southampton researchers, led by Dr Tom ...