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.
Email. Lovejoy was one of more than 40 researchers from around the world who analyzed the Ardi fossils. Scientists today told the world what they know about Ardipithecus ramidus -- Ardi for short -- the oldest pre-human species yet found. Ardi lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.ull. Ardipithecus is not the long-sought missing link -- the ancestor that scientists say humans and apes have in common -- but comes close. And it helps show that both human beings and apes have evolved from something, about six million years ago, that did not look much like either.