[Fungi]

My thought exactly. 300 million exactly? How was the date measured? Was it by index fossils or other method. I read the article, you are never told how the figure was arrived at.

[knarf]

I don’t read those kind of articles for that purpose ... they just blurt out whatever they want and build an essay around it as if it is fact

[Natufian]

It’s a piece in a newspaper. There’s al link in the article to the scientific paper. It’s only an abstract but there’s enough information there to do a bit of searchng to find out how the rocks the fossil was found in were dated.