stromatolites

number of breaks: 1

showing 1-1 of 1 breaks

show sort by

Plants have deep roots in time

Plants capture sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen. This seemingly simple process is called photosynthesis. Without it we wouldn't be able to eat and breathe. What framed the benignant greenery, how did plants come to paint the Earth emerald and... click to read more

Stefan Bengtson | Professor emeritus at Department of Palaeobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007 SE-104 05, Stockholm, Sweden.

cyanobacteria

red algae

fossils

stromatolites

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Dec 6, 2017

Editor's picks