Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for a very long time, with generations of them living and dying over the course of millennia. When they finally went extinct (likely) due to the meteor strike, they took many ...

The Wollemi pine, dubbed the “dinosaur tree,” was believed extinct for millions of years until its stunning rediscovery in 1994.

AT first, no one knew what it was. A pine tree like no other growing deep in the Wollemi wilderness, a landscape of steep gorges and sheer sandstone cliffs in Australia’s forbidding Blue ...

The Wollemia pine is a species in the Araucariaceae, a family of coniferous trees dating back at least 110 million years. Believed to be extinct since the Cretaceous, some 65 million years ago ...

Today, only 200 of the trees exist in their natural environment — all within the canyons of Wollemi National Park, just 100 miles west of Sydney. The trees are so rare that they were thought to ...

Wollemi pines – dubbed dinosaur trees – date back more than 90 million years and were thought to have died out with T-Rex. But a cluster of the prehistoric conifers was discovered in 1994, 125 ...

Wollemia pine pollen cone. Wollemia pines (found in the wild only in Australia) are one of the most ancient tree species in the world, dating back 200 million years. Velela/Wikipedia 18 abril 2017 ...

An ancient grove of pine trees whose ancestors are thought to have stood tall among dinosaurs some 200 million years ago has been saved from Australian bushfires in a covert firefighting mission.

An ancient grove of pine trees whose ancestors are thought to have stood tall among dinosaurs some 200 million years ago has been saved from Australian bushfires in a covert firefighting mission ...

The Wollemi Pine, an odd and scruffy looking specimen, is tightly encased in a 15 foot high steel cage, well out of reach. A sign nearby explains why; the tree is among the rarest on earth. In fact, ...