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Article: JURASSIC TREES FOUND IN AUSTRALIA.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- December 15, 1994
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Byline: Associated Press
SYDNEY, Australia David Noble was out on a holiday hike when he stepped off the beaten path and into the prehistoric age.
Venturing into an isolated grove in a rain forest preserve 125 miles from Sydney, the Parks and Wildlife Service officer suddenly found himself in a real-life Jurassic Park standing amid trees thought to have disappeared 150 million years ago.
``The discovery is the equivalent of finding a small dinosaur still alive on Earth,'' said Carrick Chambers, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens.
To botanists, discovery of the 39 prehistoric pines is ``off the planet,'' he said Wednesday.
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