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Paleontologists Find First Known Fossils of Living Tropical Tree Species


The fossils of the giant rainforest tree Dryobalanops rappa found in Brunei (officially Brunei Darussalam), a country on the large island of Borneo, are the first fossil evidence of a living endangered tropical tree species.

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