The University of Colorado Boulder has acquired a rare Wollemi pine tree, a tree species that lived alongside dinosaurs and ...

close up of a wollemi pine tree, a species that has survived since the cretaceous period In 1994, hikers discovered a group of strange trees growing in a canyon in Wollemi National Park, about 60 ...

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In a new effort to save critically endangered plant life, conservationists diffused the first set of bred “dinosaur trees" worldwide. Wollemi pines (Wollemia nobilis) shared the same Earth as the ...

Firefighters embarked on the mission to save the rare Wollemi Pines. Firefighters in Australia successfully embarked on a secret mission to save the prehistoric -- and extremely rare -- Wollemi pine ...

When the fires raging in southeastern Australia threatened the world’s only known natural stand of Wollemi pines, a special crew of firefighters was deployed to protect them. The ancient tree species ...

The original wild specimens of the ancient Wollemi pine tree are safe for now as fires which have burnt more than 220,000 hectares continue throughout the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales.

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An ancient grove of pine trees whose ancestors are thought to have stood tall among dinosaurs some 200 million years ago has been saved from Australian bushfires in a covert firefighting mission.

One of the world's oldest and most rare tree species — the Wollemi pine — is flourishing in Canberra at the National Arboretum. To celebrate Canberra Tree Week, forestry enthusiasts gathered at the ...

There’s a tree that once covered the whole of Australia, then dwindled to a dozen examples, and is now spread around the world. We call it the Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis), but you could call it ...