Mystery of 'living fossil' tree frozen in time for 66 millio

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

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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