The Wollemi Pines in the Australian rainforest started growing at the time of dinosaurs.

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David Noble worked for the Australian National Parks Service.

One weekend in August 1994 he visited the Sidney rainforest.

He walked for hours and hours and go to a valley.

He wanted to see the top of the valley.

With a rope, he climbled 600 metres up the rocks.

There, he discovered some very common trees.

Mr. Noble took some pieces of the trees and went to Sidney to examine them.

He compared them with tree fossils from prehistoric times.

The Wollemi Trees and the fossils were not the same.

They started growing after the dinosaurs lived in Australia.

The  Wollemi Pines are a new type of tree,  – over 130 million years old

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Wollemi Pines

David Noble worked for the Australian National Parks Service. One weekend in August 1994 he visited the Wollemi Park rainforest. He walked for hours and hours through thick forest. He wanted to see what was at the bottom of a valley.

With a rope, he climbled 600 metres down the rocks. There, he discovered 42 trees. They looked very strange. Mr. Noble collected some pieces of the trees and then he went back to Sidney.

In Sidney, he looked carefully at the trees. He compared them with tree fossils from prehistoric times. The Wollemi Trees and the fossils were exactly the same!

They started growing when the dinosaurs lived in Australia. In December 1994, the Australian Government officially said that the Wollemi Pines were a new type of tree – over 150 million years old!