Submission + - New Zealand tree caught in time warp (sciencemag.org) 1

Submitted by sciencehabit on Friday July 24, 2009 @07:36PM

sciencehabit writes: A eukalyptus-like tree from New Zealand is still waging a battle that should have ended over 500 years ago. The tree continues to sport evolutionary adaptations, such as barbed leaves, to protect it from a large, flightless bird known as a moa. There's just one problem: the moa went extinct around 1500 AD.

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