The new species, Streptofilum arcticum, is closely related to its sister organism Streptofilum capillatum, a tiny green ... to land plants. It originates from the era when freshwater algae ...

Nearly three-fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

It’s hard to picture now, but Earth’s deep blue oceans were once green. According to a new study by Japanese researchers, ...

The world may need to start thinking differently about plants, according to a report in the journal Science by researchers who took a fresh look at spore-like microfossils with characteristics that ...

and stems of land plants. True algae are a broad category that covers everything from single-celled diatoms to sea lettuce and giant kelp. Blue-green algae, however, are bacteria and are also know ...

2005; Weber, Linka, & Bhattacharya 2006), which includes many photosynthetic algae and land plants. Is there an alternative ... during which a green alga was independently captured by their ...

A variety of fossilized plant spores have been found in rocks from Western Australia that date from the early Ordovician era—approximately 480 million years ago. According to a paper published in ...