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Animals evolved long before plants. What's crazy is that plants were arguably evolved by fungi using alga to farm sunlight

• 11235813213455 4y ago
  > Animals evolved long before plants No underwater: algae 3500MY vs sponges, worms, shells 800MY-485MY out of water: plants 470MY vs millipedes, tetrapod 420MY-400MY
  • OhNoNotAnother1 4y ago
  • lilgreenland 4y ago
    quora says animals https://www.quora.com/Which-evolved-first-plants-or-animals https://www.quora.com/Which-evolved-first-plants-or-animals
    • 11235813213455 4y ago
      Algae existed long before animals And even on land, he seems to be wrong (or at least not up to date): https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2018/february/plant-life-on-earth-is-much-older-than-we-thought.html https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2018/february/plant-life..., https://www.science.org/content/article/land-plants-arose-earlier-thought-and-may-have-had-bigger-impact-evolution-animals https://www.science.org/content/article/land-plants-arose-ea...
      • adammarples 4y ago
        This is precisely my point - algae are not plants, they evolved a long time before