{"id":38,"date":"2003-09-23T22:35:14","date_gmt":"2003-09-23T22:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:07","slug":"invasion-of-the-land-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"invasion of the land plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 1066, the Norman invasion; in 1588, the Spanish  Armada. Invasion dates: What would history books and trivia games be  without them? And now perhaps a new date can be added to the annals:  470,000,000 BC, the date plants invaded land. Charles H. Wellman of the  University of Sheffield, UK, and his colleagues report in the Sept. 18 <em> Nature<\/em> that they have discovered fragments of the earliest land plants.  Microscopic spores have previously been found in 470 million-year-old  rocks, but the spores were 50 million years older than any known land  plant fossils. Also, the spores were similar to those of aquatic algae,  and so could not reliably be assumed to come from plants that lived on  land. But the researchers have found fossilized fragments of tiny land  plants holding identical spores in ancient rocks in Oman, seeming to  confirm the 470 million-year date. Analysis of the fragments shows that  the ancient plants were probably most similar to today&#8217;s liverworts, a  moss-like plant. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 9\/23\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1066, the Norman invasion; in 1588, the Spanish Armada. Invasion dates: What would history books and trivia games be without them? And now perhaps a new date can be added to the annals: 470,000,000 BC, the date plants invaded &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=38\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}