Newly discovered algae species offers insights into plant evolution and UV protection
An international research team has described a newly discovered algae species Streptofilum arcticum and its cell functions ...
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Study Reveals 145 Million-Year-Old Short-Lived Forest Didn’t Rot Away Due to Sea’s Salty Water, It Was Preserved by Microbes
It held some of the strangest fossils on the Jurassic Coast due to the population of tiny algae-like microbes that ... onto the trees which built living mats of limestone called thrombolites ...
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Oldest Green Algae Fossil Discovered in China
View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. “Previously, the oldest widely accepted fossilized green algae was about 800 million years old,” Timothy Gibson, a postdoc at Dartmouth College ...