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"Jurassic" tree planted at London park
Tue May 10, 5:40 PM ET
LONDON (AFP) - A "Jurassic" tree dating from the dinosaur age and long thought to have been extinct for 200 million years was planted at a park in London by British wildlife expert Sir David Attenborough.
One of the rarest trees in the world, the Wollemi Pine was found in Australia by a national parks officer, David Noble, in 1994.
The discovery astonished botanists worldwide who had thought the tree died out millions of years ago.
"How marvellous and exciting that we should have discovered this rare survivor from such an ancient past," Attenborough said as the tree went on public display at Kew Gardens.
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