Secret Operation to Save Australia’s Last ‘Dinosaur Trees’ from Bushfires

In what Australian officials called “an unprecedented environmental protection mission,” firefighters were deployed in recent weeks into a remote sliver of rainforest, about 125 miles northwest of Sydney, to preserve wild Wollemi pines — a prehistoric species that was once believed to be extinct and is now considered one of Earth’s few living connections to the times of dinosaurs.

“With less than 200 left, we knew we needed to do everything we could to save them,”


Less than 50%

Those little pricks starting fires could have destroyed something that has survived since the age of the dinosaur.

Australia needs to mine ice from Antarctica, to create a giant lake in the middle of the land mass.

If they are that old, maybe one of them could move to the US and run for senate.