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The object at hand: the dawn redwood, thought extinct for millions of years, is now alive and flourishing at the National Zoo. (column)
Stop press! Good news ! Instead of another story of endangered flora or fauna, this is a tale of a relict species-by which we mean here a plant or animal that suddenly turns up alive and well in a distant corner of the world long after everyone thought it had been dead for years. In this case, about two million years. The object at hand is the dawn redwood, a tree that at the moment is helping the National Zoo celebrate its 100th birthday. One of the many remarkable things about the dawn redwood is that, unlike most other conifers, it 's deciduous and sheds its needles in the fall.
If you have a chance to visit the zoo, you'll find a small grove of dawn redwoods along a man-made stream on the Valley Trail just before you get to the beavers. They are slender trees with red-brown bark and branches that droop delicately, like the hands of a ballet dancer. The needles-bright green in the summer,…
- Plant a living fossil in your landscape. (dawn redwood)(The Home Landscape)
- Magazine article from: Flower & Garden Magazine Minning, Anne October 1, 1995 700+ words
...in the winter. The dawn redwood is pest- and disease...the ancestors of the dawn redwood were known only from...Earth, some 100 million years ago during the Mesozoic era. At that time the dawn redwood appears to have flourished...
- Dawn Redwood.(Tree of the Month)
- Magazine article from: Arbor Age Phillips, Leonard November 1, 2003 700+ words
Botanical Name: Metasequoia glyplostroboides Common Name: Dawn Redwood Family: Taxodiaceae Parentage: Prehistoric tree found in China and introduced in 1948 by Arnold Arboretum Height: 70 to 100...
- color it peaceful: Plenty of pets, plants, pleasantness around.
- News wire article from: Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY) July 14, 2007 700+ words
...And by the road, rising 30 feet or so, is a dawn redwood that Tate planted 15 years ago. To visit her property is to see the grit and...there on the right." The store closed a few years ago because wholesalers didn't want to make deliveries...
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- Magazine article from: House Beautiful SOLOVITCH, SARA July 1, 2000 700+ words
...bedraggled and withered until four years ago, when a group of passionate local...centerpiece a forty-foot-tall dawn redwood, an unusual deciduous variety...sequoia brought back from China sixty years ago by botanists from the University...
- Humans Began Altering Global Climate Thousands of Years Ago, Study Shows.
- News wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service December 8, 2003 700+ words
...concentrations and global climate thousands of years ago, long before the 1800s date widely assumed...emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) since 8,000 years ago, and methane (CH4) since 5,000 years ago have combined to prevent a significant natural...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News October 3, 2004 700+ words
...financially better off now than they were four years ago. Pettyjohn was making $38,000 a year...Parker-Chomerics in Hudson just three years ago. Then he was laid off, leaving him...financially secure now than they did four years ago depends on whom you ask -- making the...
- Fossils Push Human Emergence Back To 195,000 Years Ago.
- Magazine article from: Space Daily February 18, 2005 700+ words
...thought to be 130,000 years old. A few years ago, researchers found 154,000- to 160...sapiens, roamed Africa about 195,000 years ago. "It pushes back the beginning of anatomically...of Homo sapiens from about 160,000 years ago back to about 195,000 years ago "is...
- Earth's Bombardment by Asteroids 3.9 Billion Years Ago May Have Enhanced Early...
- News wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service May 20, 2009 700+ words
...bombardment of Earth nearly 4 billion years ago by asteroids as large as Kansas would...the Hadean Eon 4.5 to 3.8 billion years ago, particularly through a cataclysmic...Heavy Bombardment about 3.9 million years ago. Although many believe the bombardment...
- Atmospheric carbon dioxide greater 1.4 billion years ago.
- Newspaper article from: Life Science Weekly October 6, 2003 700+ words
...com & NewsRx.net) -- Billions of years ago, there was a lot more greenhouse gas...subscript]2 levels 1.4 billion years ago were at least 10 to 200 times greater...than 30% increase. But 1.4 billion years ago, CO[subscript]2 was more than 10...
- Thirty years ago. (poem)
- Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review Hikmet, Nazim Blasing, Randy Konuk, Mutlu March 1, 1994 700+ words
I passed this way thirty years ago. Four days and nights by train...hours and ten minutes... Thirty years ago songs filled the train--songs...youth still fill the train. Thirty years ago a Komsomol girl rode the train in...
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