Whilst Sphagnum is a moss, not all mosses are sphagnum. Sphagnum moss is the long stranded moss that is often used by gardeners to line hanging baskets and for air-layering plants. Sphagnum peat is decayed and decomposed sphagnum moss, and for the purposes of this article, should not be confused with live Sphagnum.A single sphagnum moss plant is very small. It grows packed closely together with many other plants of the same kind and they provide support for each other's tiny stems.phagnum peat is decayed and decomposed sphagnum moss, and for the purposes of this article, should not be confused with live Sphagnum. A single sphagnum moss plant is very small. It grows packed closely together with many other plants of the same kind and they provide support for each other's tiny stems.
Viruses of plants and livestock also increased, and as humans became dependent on agriculture and farming, diseases such as potyviruses of potatoes and rinderpest of cattle had devastating consequences. Smallpox and measles viruses are among the oldest that infect humans.Having evolved from viruses that infected other animals, they first appeared in humans in Europe and North Africa thousands of years ago.iruses of plants and livestock also increased, and as humans became dependent on agriculture and farming, diseases such as potyviruses of potatoes and rinderpest of cattle had devastating consequences. Smallpox and measles viruses are among the oldest that infect humans.
Australopithecus afarensis is one of the longest-lived and best-known early human speciesâpaleoanthropologists have uncovered remains from more than 300 individuals! Found between 3.85 and 2.95 million years ago in Eastern Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania), this species survived for more than 900,000 years, which is over four times as long as our ...