Repost 16 June 2007: Sweden Has A Wollemi Pine Too

Just a quickie:

Saw this article while trawling the interwebs: The Swedes Get A Jurassic Tree. It's great to see the Wollemi love being spread.

One quote from this really struck me - it wasn't anything I'd thought about before:

"It is estimated to be about 200 million years old, from earth's Jurassic Period, so it was around even before the Australian continent was formed."

Australia, India and Antarctica broke away from Africa and South America 165 million years ago, and Australia had separated from Antarctica and the other continents by 45 million years ago.

Isn't plate tectonics wonderful?