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"Jurassic" Tree Planted At London Park
London (AFP) May 10, 2005 A "Jurassic" tree dating from the dinosaur age and long thought to have been extinct for 200 million years was planted Tuesday 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. "It is romantic, I think, that something has survived 200 million years unchanged," he said. Tony Kirkham, head of the arboretum at Kew, was one of the people allowed to see the tree in its natural habitat in Australia's Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. "In botanic terms, it is like a zoologist going out and finding a live dinosaur somewhere, a Tyrannosaurus Rex," he said. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Dirt, rocks and all the stuff we stand on firmly
Magnetic Reconnection Region Larger Than 2.5 Million Km Found In The Solar Wind
Paris (ESA) Jan 12, 2006Using the ESA Cluster spacecraft and the NASA Wind and ACE satellites, a team of American and European scientists have discovered the largest jets of particles created between the Earth and the Sun by magnetic reconnection. This result makes the cover of this week's issue of Nature. |
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