Where Did Plants Originate?
Land Plants Evolved from Ocean Plants. That Is, from Algae. Plants Are Thought to Have Made the Leap from the Oceans onto Dry Land About 450 Million Year's...
Land plants evolved from ocean plants. That is, from algae. Plants are thought to have made the leap from the oceans onto dry land about 450 million years ago.
When did plants originate?
Around 500 million years ago — when the Earth was already a ripe 4 billion years old — the first green plants appeared on dry land. Precisely how this occurred is still one of the big mysteries of evolution. Before then, terrestrial land was home only to microbial life.
Where did plants evolve from?
Botanists now believe that plants evolved from the algae; the development of the plant kingdom may have resulted from evolutionary changes that occurred when photosynthetic multicellular organisms invaded the continents.
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