unsteady path to ecosystem recovery The fossils from these Australian rocks show that conifers, like modern pines, were some of the earliest to colonize the land immediately after the End-Permian ...

MacNeil also showed examples of fossilized plants, including walchia, a type of conifer with needle-like leaves, which is ...

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