Plants of Long Ago
Plants of Long Ago
The plants that grew on earth hundreds of millions of years ago didn’t
look much like the plants we see around us today.
Scientists have learned a great deal about what the world was like long
ago. The men and women who study these things have put facts and ideas
together. They have given us a story of how they think the world has
changed in the course of billions of years. According to them, we owe a
lot to the strange-looking plants of long ago.
Here, then, is part of the story that these scientists have worked out.