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Sep 15, 2023

Mystery of ‘living fossil’ tree frozen in time for 66 million years finally solved

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

The Wollemi pine was thought to have gone extinct 2 million years ago until it was rediscovered by a group of hikers in 1994. Now, scientists have decoded its genome to understand how it’s survived — almost unchanged — since the time of the dinosaurs.

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