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- suxmonkey, on 11/02/2007, -0/+26"Some living specimens are thought to have living root structures from the time of the Roman Empire." How friggin cool is that?
- jhnewt, on 11/02/2007, -0/+24I do believe this is the first article from treehugger I've seen on digg that is actually about trees.
- xxTazxx, on 11/02/2007, -0/+14All we need now, is a T-Rex.
- Konrad9, on 11/02/2007, -0/+8God destroys trees.
God creates man.
Man creates trees.
Trees... destroy man? - idioteque1025, on 11/03/2007, -1/+9Is there anyway for the general public to plant one of these trees. Are they making the seeds open-source?
- marktastic, on 11/02/2007, -0/+4The mosquitoes are in the sap
- whatever01, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3Many Sequoias in California are that old too.
- KibibyteBrain, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3One surviving structure even has "Adeodatus [ heart ] Crescentia" carved into it.
- TruthforAll, on 11/01/2007, -0/+3I need to get one of these for the horticulture department at my school. It would be an excellent teaching tool.
- SharkyTech, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3"living root structures from the time of the Roman Empire."
Long generations = slow evolution - SlipstreamLucas, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3yeah, its the frogs they are having trouble finding!
- SlipstreamLucas, on 11/01/2007, -0/+3only if you give due credit to the tree the seed came from.
- jgzman, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3Woman inherits the earth?
- SlipstreamLucas, on 11/02/2007, -0/+2pressie isn't just an aussie thing is it?
pressie = present - cranium, on 11/01/2007, -0/+2Aw, hell, now I want one! Even if they don't grow here, maybe I could sponsor one.
- SlipstreamLucas, on 11/01/2007, -0/+2In that case you'll love this
http://www.abc.net.au/abccontentsales/s1201471.htm
its about a species of tree from Tasmania called the Huon Pine. Some of them are over 3,000 years old. I have walked through these forests and touched these trees (not in a wierd way), i'm no hippie, but it was an eery feeling thinking about how long these things have been on the earth for, my entire life but the blink of an eye compared to them.
Unfortunately most of them were logged years ago and theres very few old ones left. - jjmckay, on 11/02/2007, -0/+2They probably did evolve but very much. Evolution doesn't happen at the same rate to all species. For example turtles are relatively primitive compared to humans. Same goes with plants. Maybe they did evolve a lot but the 90m year old fossils don't show it because that's only the plant's physical structure and not it's immune system or way of reproducing, etc etc..
- Ibox, on 11/01/2007, -0/+2http://www.kew.org/press/wollemi_sales.html
- macguy815, on 11/01/2007, -0/+2Open-source seeds? Hah
They are for sale in Australia right now, but I imagine with some digging, they can be found on the internet. I doubt however that seeds are available as of yet. This is because the only trees mature enough to produce seeds are within the protected zone, and belong to the original colony.
So once someone's tree flower for the first time, I'm sure we'll se seed for sale. - datagod, on 11/02/2007, -0/+2But they reproduce yearly. And those saplings can reproduce within a year or two..
- ErrorS, on 11/02/2007, -0/+2Why do people think that a single species magically turns into another one? that's not how it happens.. one species can give birth to another species but the original doesn't necessarily need to disapear.
- macguy815, on 11/02/2007, -0/+2http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/jump.jsp?itemID ...
Buy one online if you want - SlipstreamLucas, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1They already tried back in the 70's, puberty love won.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080391/ - SlipstreamLucas, on 11/02/2007, -1/+2...and after a brief period of peace and fake smiles...
At the all women UN convention tensions flare over Russia's discovery (during a late night phone call to Germany after an episode of grays anatomy) that France thought the dress she wore to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty made her arse look big.
France immediatly calls england and spain to discuss what an over reacting bitch Russia is being, and also to try to secretly find out who told her what she had said about her arse. England and Spain totally agree with France that russia is being a cow.
Upon conclusion of the phone call spain and england call each other to giggle and discuss ways to get Russia and england in the same place "accidentally" just to see what happens. - WAR
Meanwhile in Asia Japan refuses to export latest range of open toe leg strapped summer must haves to china for fear of attentded convention wearing the same garb on the same day. - WAR
Australia gets drunk and tells Indonesia she thinks she's a slut, and that she's not the only one saying it, everyone is behind her back. - WAR
New Zealand Does something with sheep. - ???
America realizes she's fat and never leaves the country.
Canada is happy with this arrangement as it makes her look skinny --- cold war
Follows is a global level of bitching, backstabbing, double crossing, and false alliances that would make any episode of the bold and the beautiful look like a game of lawn bowls. Each country devotes the entirety of its resources to making the lives of the others as difficult as possible.
we all live happily ever after. - thebrawl, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1Next comes the brontosauruses.
- J4k3, on 11/01/2007, -1/+2Awesome. I'd like to have a few and plant them all over my backyard here in the Caribbean. It would be pretty cool to see the native iguanas here take refuge amongst them.
- SlipstreamLucas, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1oh yeah, and i have one in my bonsai collection too :)
- dae3dae3, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1I know it is in fashion to attack Americans but please at least try to make some sense.
- thebrawl, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1Man make trees into paper.
- dae3dae3, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1That is not expensive for a tree. Go someplace that sells tree. A generic maple tree can be more than a hundred bucks if it is greater than five feet tall.
- SharkyTech, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1I've got one I'm looking at out my window right now. They're not too difficult to get hold of over here, but I only know of one nursery in my region that has them. As Macguy815 said, you can't get seeds, but I'm sure you could probably live import them, if quarantine etc. where you are allow that.
- datagod, on 11/03/2007, -0/+1I thought the driving force behind evolution was "random" mutations? How can something random happen less often for one species than another?
- SharkyTech, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1Indeed, and the double 's' is pronounced as a 'z' sound rather than an 's' sound, I know the Americans have made that mistake before ; ) .
- inactive, on 11/03/2007, -0/+1Christmas is some sort of holliday.
- inactive, on 11/03/2007, -0/+1All American's don't care about extinct trees. That's why they are dumb.
- RoyalPwner, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1Very friggin cool.
- jjmckay, on 11/04/2007, -0/+1it's complicated I'm sure. It all comes down to day-by-day happenings that will never be fully known.
Also, one kind of 'random' adaptation can be a huge evolutionary advantage. Lets use vision as one example. Animals that evolved vision seemed to have had a huge advantage and now most animals have vision, but not all. Evolution may not be entirely random, but rather of risks and chances. - datagod, on 11/02/2007, -1/+190 million years and the species did not evolve??? What is up with that?
- MyBrandNewEyes, on 11/01/2007, -0/+019th century botany FTW!
- hansk, on 11/02/2007, -2/+2what's a christmas pressie?
- Jalh, on 11/03/2007, -3/+199 dollars for a fu**ng tree ???? sh!t keet it !
- inactive, on 11/03/2007, -3/+1Most Americans dont care about plants unless they smoke them unfortunately
- peekingduck, on 11/03/2007, -4/+1You mean 'Tree' Singular.
- tedonion, on 11/02/2007, -8/+3As a Nebraska native, I resent the Australians stealing Arbor day and renaming it national tree day.
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