A rare tree species known only in fossil form is discovered alive and well in a remote valley in China in the 1940s. The ensuing battle over scientific credit overshadows the tree's hearty reintroduction to multiple continents. Its ...See moreA rare tree species known only in fossil form is discovered alive and well in a remote valley in China in the 1940s. The ensuing battle over scientific credit overshadows the tree's hearty reintroduction to multiple continents. Its human-assisted re-emergence eventually leads to Metasequoia's designation as the official state fossil of Oregon, where the reintroduced tree made its first cones on US soil in over five million years.
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