A fossilized fungus has been found that dates back 635 million years and is said to have played a vital role in reviving the Earth after an ice age which left oceans under ice a mile thick.
Scientists from China and the US are now rethinking theories on how and when life evolved, after the discovery in Southern China , Nature Communications reported.
Stalker loves snippets like this - it shows how important fungal life is on planet Earth, and ideas of deep time and ecological evolution boggle the brain.
