ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Millions of years ago, lush rainforests blanketed the massive Gondwana supercontinent encompassing Australia, Antarctica and South America. From those forests, the first flowering plants evolved.
Today, after waves of climatic changes and then destruction by Europeans, only tiny pockets of those ancient rainforests remain, and a vast number of plant and animal species have gone extinct.
Now, in a discovery that has shocked and delighted scientists, two ancient species of plants thought to be entirely new to science have been found in a tiny patch on the edge of a highway in Coffs Harbour.
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