Re: Wollemi, Attenborough, and Branagh

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4531805.stm

Pictures!

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/10/udinosaur.xml

Detail picture! More like palm leaves than like ordinary conifer needles.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Science/On-the-trail-of-lonesome-Wollemi-pine/2005/05/10/1115584960640.html?oneclick=true

"a complete reshuffle of the world's landscape"

I love this phrase! Must remember it. :-)

"and 17 ice ages."

The number I heard last was 21.

http://www.canada.com/news/world/story.html?id=c2c1f37a-b79c-443e-9d10-c08028e13531

"A conifer related to the monkey puzzle tree, the Wollemi Pine has dense 
blue-green foliage and grows up to 40 metres. It has distinctive bubbly bark 
which some have compared to Coco Pops breakfast cereal."

:-D

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/science/story/0,12996,1480164,00.html

"The Wollemi pine -up to 40 metres high and in fact, a conifer, not a 
pine -"

:.-(
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http://www.dehavilland.co.uk/webhost.asp?wci=default&wcp=NationalNewsStoryPage&ItemID=8468622&ServiceID=8&filterid=10&searchid=8

"Although the tree is called a pine it is, in fact, a conifer, closely 
related to the monkey puzzle tree with two layers of leaves along its 
twisting branches."

The art of placing commas... grmbfl!