Plant fossils from 400m years ago show how soils became stabilised, a key moment in the evolution of life The “present is the key to the past” is our mantra for all sorts of geological interpretation.

Artist’s impression of the landscape over 400 million years ago, when plants began diversifying the arrangement of their vascular tissues, increasing their overall stature, and exploring increasingly ...

Roughly 400 million years ago, when Earth’s continents were only beginning to host simple ecosystems, a towering organism rose above the low vegetation of the early Devonian landscape. Long before ...