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The Wollemi Pines were discovered in an isolated region of the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, Australia, when park ranger David Noble stumbled across the unusual trees.

It had been thought to have been extinct for at least two million years. The only known examples were fossils 175 million years old.

Professor Carrick Chambers, director of Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens, said at the time of the discovery that it was "the equivalent of finding a small dinosaur still alive on Earth".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3139450.stm

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