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Oldest fungus ever: Scientists discover 635 million-year-old wee fungus microfossil – Republic World
“It was accidental discovery. At that moment, we realized that this could be fungus fossil that scientists have been looking for a long time,” Tian Gan said.
Scientists have discovered the oldest evidence of land fungus in a cave in southern China. According to findings published in the journal Live Science, the “wee microfossil” was found to be more than 635 million years old and was too microscopic to be visible from the human naked eye. The pyritized fungus-like microfossil belonged to the Ediacaran-period dubbed as Snowball Earth, and was embedded in small cavities within well-studied sedimentary dolostone rocks of the Doushantuo Formation at Wengan,…
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