Friday 18 April 2014

These Are Some of the Oldest Living Things on Earth

Animals sometimes sleep inside the hollows of giant 2,000-year old baobab trees inside Kruger Game Preserve in South Africa. Humans too, sometimes use the trees, for more dubious purposes -- a jail, a toilet, a pop-up bar -- as photographer Rachel Sussman discovered when she toured the park to photograph the trees for her new book, The Oldest Living Things in the World .

















from WIRED » Science http://feeds.wired.com/c/35185/f/661470/s/3981a353/sc/10/l/0L0Swired0N0C20A140C0A40Coldest0Eliving0Ethings0C/story01.htm

via Science News

No comments:

Post a Comment