Way back when, during a time when the earth was a violent mass of volcano's, turbulent lands and erratic seas, something happened that would forever change the course of life on earth forever. What happened, would be the precursor to all living things on earth, after bacteria of course.
If you can believe, that amazing astounding astonishing thing that happened, was the evolution of the very first fungal being, dated farther back than 1,300 MILLION years ago. Now, not only does that show earth is much older than previously estimated (unless the flying spaghetti monster is tricking us again), but it also makes mushrooms older than dinosaurs, and even older than the first plant life on earth.