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“A load of old rot”: fossil of oldest known land-dweller identified

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The earliest example of an organism living on land – an early type of fungus – has been identified. The organism, from 440 million years ago, likely kick-started the process of rot and soil formation, which encouraged the later growth and diversification of life on land. __The University of Cambridge

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