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In the fossil record, these trees dubbed Wollemi pines are often found in the same strata as the dinosaurs.
ACSI v. Stearns, aka Wendell Bird vs. UC - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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Evolving in the high latitudes with low-light condition for many months, the trees of those times including the Wollemi had vertical canopies that ran parallel to the trunk that maximized the amount of low-light available.
Dr. Reese Halter: Climate Change and Australia's Living Pinosaur 2010
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Forest biologists believe that the remaining Wollemi forests in New South Wales must have been extraordinarily genetically similar before climate change forced them into a very low genetic variability, and over thousands of years they have further exaggerated by cloning into one big stand of pines that somehow split into two.
Dr. Reese Halter: Climate Change and Australia's Living Pinosaur 2010
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Of the 50 species of plants collected from the two Wollemi forests, one third are new to science, including lichens and fungi.
Dr. Reese Halter: Climate Change and Australia's Living Pinosaur 2010
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Today, all that remains are two relic stands (about a mile and a half apart) of Wollemi pines that are sticking up amongst a flowering rainforest.
Dr. Reese Halter: Climate Change and Australia's Living Pinosaur 2010
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Dinosaurs of every variety existed: carnosaurus, kangaroo-sized Leaellynasaura with specially adapted eyes to cope with winter darkness, and pterosaurs flying above ginkos and new evolving Wollemi forests.
Dr. Reese Halter: Climate Change and Australia's Living Pinosaur 2010
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On Sept. 10, 1994, a New South Wales naturalist named David Noble abseiled into one of the more than 500 canyons in Wollemi National Park -- some 60 miles east of the megalopolis of Sydney -- and discovered a stand of prehistoric coniferous Wollemi pines, representing the 110-million-year-old supercontinent of Gondwanaland.
Dr. Reese Halter: Climate Change and Australia's Living Pinosaur 2010
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The lush Wollemi pine forests of 100 million years ago were beleaguered.
Dr. Reese Halter: Climate Change and Australia's Living Pinosaur 2010
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How had Wollemi pine, which was thought to have perished more than 35 million years ago, managed to survive?
Dr. Reese Halter: Climate Change and Australia's Living Pinosaur 2010
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By two million years ago Wollemi probably only lived in about 10 gullies in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales and they were wiped out except along one creek-line.
Dr. Reese Halter: Climate Change and Australia's Living Pinosaur 2010
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