Gallery: Simple Seaweeds May Be Earth's First Plants

  • Brancing kelplike Lantian fossil
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  • Algal Lantian fossils with holdfasts
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  • Lantian fossils with holdfasts
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  • Unidentified Lantian fossils
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  • Axial Lantian fossils
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  • Branching Lantian fossil
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