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850 BCE
the first plants
the first plants first grow under fresh water about 850 million years ago and they still do in todays world. The plants have evolved from that point on. -
500 BCE
the first evolution
New data and analysis show that plant life began colonising land 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian Period, around the same time as the emergence of the first land animals. These studies are also improving our understanding of how the plant family first evolved. -
470
when plants went from water to land
The first land plants appeared around 470 million years ago, during the Ordovician period, when life was diversifying rapidly. They were non-vascular plants, like mosses and liverworts, that didn't have deep roots. -
what are plant know
plants have evolved in many different ways from 500 million years ago and some are still evolving today. The most import evolution they made would be to be able to reproduce asexual or sexual with spores.
