Bushfires damaged Australian rainforest that is home to Earth's only living specimens of ancient species
Tuesday, April 7, 2020 - 08:10
in Earth & Climate
Recent wildfires in Australia torched more than 48,000 square miles of land (for context, Pennsylvania is about 46,000 square miles). The fires impacted ecologically sensitive regions, including an area called the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Site. This region contains a vast concentration of living plants with fossil records from tens of millions of years ago, according to Peter Wilf.