Plants -- even relatively small ones -- played a crucial role in establishing a Beachhead for life on land, according to recent work by an international team from China, the U.S., the U.K., and the University of Saskatchewan. A 410-million-year-old soil shows extensive rhizome traces of Drepanophycus, an early vascular plant  related to modern club mosses [Credit: Jinzhuang Xue, Peking University]The team, led by paleobiologist...

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