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'Living fossil' tree frozen in time for 66 million years being planted in secret locations

2y 3mon ago by lemmy.nz/u/throws_lemy in palaeoecology@mander.xyz from www.livescience.com

First sentence “Wollemi pines — thought to have gone extinct 2 million years ago — were rediscovered in 1994.” Contradicts the clickbait title.

Also, per Wikipedia, the paleontological evidence indicates it evolved within the past 10 million years, and is only somewhat similar to fossils from the Cretaceous