In 1994, a bushwalker rappelling into a sandstone canyon 150 kilometres from Sydney found a stand of trees with waxy bubbled bark that matched fossils 90 million years old, and the Wollemi pine turned out to be a species everyone had assumed died with the dinosaurs

In 1994, a New South Wales parks officer abseiled into a Blue Mountains canyon and found a stand of trees whose species was only known from 90-million-year-old fossils. Fewer than 100 wild Wollemi pines still exist, in a grove whose coordinates the Australian government keeps classified. The post In 1994, a bushwalker rappelling into a sandstone canyon 150 kilometres from Sydney found a stand of trees with waxy bubbled bark that matched fossils 90 million years old, and the Wollemi pine turned o