One billion year old fungi found is Earth’s oldest 0 SHARES Share it! For decades, the earliest known fungi — organisms such as mushrooms, mould and yeast — was thought to have appeared on earth around half a billion years ago. They concluded the microfossils were between 900 million and one billion years old. “This means that if fungi are already present around 900-1000 million years ago, so should animals have been,” he told AFP. “This is reshaping our vision of the world because those groups are still present today.

Source: Manila Bulletin May 22, 2019 20:26 UTC