8 million year old Cypress trees found


	8 million year old Cypress trees found

BigBadWolf

8-4-2007 10:26 AM

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8-4-2007 3:00 PM

skwirlinator

Amazing

8-5-2007 1:43 AM

vampy2

I hope there will be an in depth write up of what they find in the samples.

8-7-2007 7:30 AM

TheCatWhisperer

But I thought the earth was only about 6000 years old?

This evidence has to be false!

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