Loch Ness monster cited by US schools as evidence that evolution is myth

[Rikki]

Are you telling me a Battle Owl is not real also?

this is amazing!

 

[Para]

That Rikki is a fully grown Battle Owl. Super Fantastic Eh!?

 

[mike]

can you post a pic of your tree?

Wollemi Pine is a native conifer that dates back to the time of the dinosaurs and was previously thought extinct until its chance discovery in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. You can now play a part in its conservation by growing your own Wollemi Pine or giving one to someone special.

The ultimate survivor, the Wollemi Pine is low maintenance, easy to grow and highly versatile. It will thrive in a diverse temperature range from -5 to 45ºC, can be grown in either full sun or shade, and enjoys a well drained, fertile site. A spectacular specimen tree, the Wollemi Pine can be planted as an avenue, grove or hedge - perhaps reaching a height of up to 20 metres in its lifetime.

Heres mine

We got one of the first 500 clones that became available.

but they can grow really tall

 

[pixelsmith]

very cool. thanks for posting the pics. now i want one too.

 

[Rikki]

That Rikki is a fully grown Battle Owl. Super Fantastic Eh!?

I want one!

 

[nameless]

i want that tree plus a battle owl.

 

[mike]

I have to admit having a living fossil in the front yard (apart from ancient self) is a real hoot (couldnt resist)

You can get these in the UK and US now, but there might have been a scam in the US selling these.
Possibly a scam

Best ask a large local nursery chain to get one.

But its living proof that things can survive from prehistoric times

 

[nameless]

The world pretty much seems to has survived from prehistoric times. it maybe didnt look exactly like this but it wasnt too far off, land,sea plants animals, bacteria, disease, moon, planets, sun,. This gives me a lot of faith and hope in "mother nature" dealing with what ever is thrown at it and that life in some form will exist. It is easy to forget that the world as a closed system albeit influenced and determined by its place in the unverse will exist and survive global warming, floods, apocalypses, earthquakes, etc.. Man on the other hand might not. Is that such a bad thing considering our place outside the ecosystem and the detrimental effect we have on it? Oh i forget, most modern sea faring religions exalt humanity over everything else in the world, the self righteous care taker of every living thing, a moral hyperbole justifying the underlying corporate pillage of our natural resources aided and abetted by a blinkered march of certain scientific progress for monetry gain. Dogma in all its forms and its inability to work with, capitulate and sway with a world it battles to describe or comprehend will constantly be in turmoil with an intrinsic human spirit and our ability to adapt, change, modify and employ ingeneous methodology. Some where in our strive to worship a male monothiestic supposed supernal artisan we forget that as humans we have to live in harmony with our surroundings and not be master of them as we perceive to be mastered by a god and that we will always be humbled by the judgement free randomness of nature.

 

[Wade]

Wollemi Pine is a native conifer that dates back to the time of the dinosaurs and was previously thought extinct until its chance discovery in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. You can now play a part in its conservation by growing your own Wollemi Pine or giving one to someone special.

The ultimate survivor, the Wollemi Pine is low maintenance, easy to grow and highly versatile. It will thrive in a diverse temperature range from -5 to 45ºC, can be grown in either full sun or shade, and enjoys a well drained, fertile site. A spectacular specimen tree, the Wollemi Pine can be planted as an avenue, grove or hedge - perhaps reaching a height of up to 20 metres in its lifetime.

Heres mine

We got one of the first 500 clones that became available.

but they can grow really tall

That is very cool mike, good on you, I am curious though being that it does seem to be a real versatile tree as far as it's requirements and therefore quite adaptable, any ideas why it was thought to be extinct maybe it almost succumbed
to invasive species,?

 

[mike]

From what i can tell it was thought to be extinct, because we had prior to 1994 only ever seen it in fossils

Wollemia is a genus of coniferous tree in the family Araucariaceae. Wollemia was only known through fossil records until the Australian species Wollemia nobilis was discovered in 1994 in a temperate rainforest wilderness area of the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales, in a remote series of narrow, steep-sided sandstone gorges near Lithgow, 150 kilometres north-west of Sydney.
In both botanical and popular literature the tree has been almost universally dubbed the Wollemi Pine, although it is not a true pine (genus Pinus) nor a member of the pine family (Pinaceae), but rather is related to Agathis and Araucaria in the family Araucariaceae. The oldest fossil of the Wollemi tree has been dated to 200 million years ago.[1]

Somehow a small population of them survived 200 million years in a small gorge near where i live.

The one in my yard was cloned via cutting from a specimen from that population.

When i look at it with its 200 million year lineage in mind, it makes my head spin

The last known fossils are 2 million years old, and there are less than 100 of them found in the gorge.

Wollemia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Para]

This is the best I can do right now, soldier carrying a small donkey. ( Donkey Soldier )