The initial radiation of land vascular plants, as evidenced by the increase of both diversity and morphological disparity during the Silurian and Devonian periods, has been regarded as plant terrestrialization, which can be considered the equivalent in terrestrial environments of the Cambrian explosion of marine animals. Novel structures such as tracheids, stomata, leaves, roots and secondary xylem evolved during this time interval. However,how life-history strategies evolved in early land plants is not well understood. Recently, Dr. Pu Huang from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with other collaborators, reported on a new species of Zosterophyllum, Z. baoyangense,from the Lower Devonian of Guizhou Province. Meanwhile, they built a multi-morphological-character dataset of the zosterophyllopsids from late Silurian to Early Devonian ages, and revealed the divergent life-history strategies in this group.