This is The Oldest Known Land Organism
By the start of the Ordovician Period around490 million years ago , life in the ocean had been thrive for around 100 million twelvemonth , but complex life had not yet managed to take that first start onto dry solid ground . It is think that the first plants to have appear were tiny non - vascular organisms probably looking like New - dayliverworts . Alongside these early plants , perhaps living in a reciprocally good relationship , were fungi ....