Jennifer Tooker

❖ Daily facts, day 117 ❖ Tardigrades are among some of the earliest known (and still-living) animal lineages to evolve on Earth. They emerged at least 500 million years ago, in the Cambrian period - before the evolution of insects, sharks, fish, and even trees. Image by Oxford University

In the high garden of a buttermilk painted house, tucked between the hills that cradle an ancient sea, there grows a tree whose branches curl like the locked hands of dancers, all reaching outward, all holding on. Araucaria araucana Monkey Puzzle, as we call it. But in the tongue of earth and story, it has another name: Watcher of the Firstborn.___... See more