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In 1994, a park ranger descending a sandstone gorge west of Sydney found a conifer from a 200-million-year-old family, and the latest official count found only 45 mature Wollemi pines across four secret wild stands
How did a hilltop sanctuary in southeastern Anatolia, built with 5-metre limestone pillars around 9600 BCE, predate Stonehenge by roughly 6,000 years without metal tools, pottery, or the wheel?
Olympus Mons on Mars rises about 22 kilometres above the surrounding plains but stretches roughly 600 kilometres wide, so a climber standing on its slope would see only a gentle rise in every direction and never realise they were on the tallest volcano in the solar system
In 1846, French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier predicted the position of an unseen eighth planet from irregularities in Uranus's orbit, and when he wrote to the Berlin Observatory, they found Neptune within a single degree of his coordinates on the very first night they looked
