Geologist Jack Doyle presents his Wollemi Pine to Isla Gladstone, the curator of natural science at The Yorkshire Museum.
The tree, which is one of the world’s oldest tree species, may have been around when dinosars roamed the earth.
The species was believed to be extinct, but was rediscovered in 1994 in a remote corner of Australian rainforest. Only 200 of these “living fossils” survive in the wild.
The tree has been donated by Mr Doyle and his partner, Jackie Weiss, to mark the museum’s acquisition of his collection of fossils and associated fieldnotes from a lifetime of collection and research into the Speeton Clay horizon of the Yorkshire Coast.
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