Discovery: 1 Billion-Year-Old Micro-Fossil (VIDEO)

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Virginia Tech paleontologists have made a remarkable discovery in China: 1 billion-year-old micro-fossils of green seaweeds that predate the first green land plants that developed 450 million years ago. They hypothesize this is where modern green plants and trees come from.

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