Amazingly certain fungi break down rock and extract the nutrients, I tried to find a good article but they were behind firewalls, this is something though http:

Amazingly certain fungi break down rock and extract the nutrients, I tried to find a good article but they were behind firewalls, this is something though http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/iron-eating-fungus-disintegrates-rocks-acid-and-cellular-knives http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/iron-eating-fungus-di... Further origional life on land was fungi, it was the symbiosis of algae and fungi that evolved into the first plant