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Paleoecology (also spelled palaeoecology) is the study of interactions between organisms and/or interactions between organisms and their environments across geologic timescales. As a discipline, paleoecology interacts with, depends on and informs a variety of fields including paleontology, ecology, climatology and biology. Read more...

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'Living fossil' tree frozen in time for 66 million years being planted in secret locations (www.livescience.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

First sentence “Wollemi pines — thought to have gone extinct 2 million years ago — were rediscovered in 1994.” Contradicts the clickbait title.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Also, per Wikipedia, the paleontological evidence indicates it evolved within the past 10 million years, and is only somewhat similar to fossils from the Cretaceous