Scientists found the first half of this evidence over 100 years ago, but just two years ago found the matching pieces.

At 385 million years old, they are the oldest examples of this genus.

What are they, and where were they found?

Is it that bloody great big tree in Northern Australia?

"The Wollemi pine was discovered in August by Mr David Noble, a project officer with the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), who was spending his weekend in the park. He was canyoning in a 600-metre-deep gorge when the big trees caught his eye. He brought a branch back to show to Mr Wyn Jones, a senior naturalist with the NPWS.

After a cursory glance, Mr Jones told Mr Noble that he thought the branch was from a fern.

"No," Mr Noble said, "It's from a bloody great big tree."

Mr Jones first saw the trees in the wild a fortnight later.

August 1994

or maybe that four-legged fish, first found in 1881?

Eusthenopteron? Then more data found recently in Quebec?

lol Babs..it was a tree, but I don't know if it was "a bloody big one"!

Anyway, not the answer I wanted, sorry, wrong continent wrong type of tree.

(Grumble grumble) You have no idea just how many events happened 385 million years ago! You are so strict!

"You have no idea just how many events happened 385 million years ago!"

Maybe not, but Karrow might remember.

The scincid lizard (Squamata) .

Mozart,
No it's not a lizard. As I said to Babs, it is a tree, or at least, the fossilized remains of one.

This major dicovery was reported last week in a leading British scientific journal.

What I want to know is the name of the tree and where it was found.

Gilboa, New York's famous Wattieza tree ?

Well done dogspit,

In Gilboa, N.Y, scientists have found more fossilized remains of the Wattieza tree,
The first remains were found in 1870 and the new discovery enabled scientists to match them.

One of the co-authors of the report, University of Cardiff Professor, Christopher Berry said,

"This was also a significant moment in the history of the planet. The rise of the forests removed a lot of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This caused temperatures to drop and the planet became very similar to its present-day condition,"

I have a couple more links:

MSN Technology

Nature.com