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Some Amazon Trees species are more than 8 million years old!?!

If you think your grandparents are old wait until you hear about this. Scientist have just found tree species in the amazon that are older than eight million years! That’s even more astonishing judging from the facts that humanity is a little under a million years old!

Estimated genetic ages of trees in the study. Photo by Rhett A. Butler
Canopy tree in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

 

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