• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    2 months ago

    It’s my understanding that fungi came around rather late in the game. Long after animals and plants both.

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      2 months ago

      The earliest fungi evolved approximately 1.5 billion years ago, while green algae, the earliest plant, only evolved ~1 billion years ago. Animalia is significantly newer.