Re: Wollemi, Attenborough, and Branagh

[Renato Santos <dracontes@hotmail.com>]

I find it particularly funny that the botanists compare the find of Wollemia 
nobilis to paleontologists finding a small dinosaur in the wild :-D Guess 
what? They were right under our noses the whole time ;-)

Now a question comes into my mind. Is this much ado about nothing? I see the 
fossil record for these creatures (yes, the pines) being touted as either 
ending 2 Ma ago or 90 Ma (I guess this last one must be a misprint). Is 
there in fact a fossil record for Wollemia nobilis or are we talking of 
Araucariaceae in general? I agree it's a wonderfull find, a living one at 
that, but I'd like to have a bit of perspective thrown in to this "frenzy" 
(if asking for that isn't too off topic).

Renato Santos

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