Sir David Attenborough has revisited a desert bush he was photographed with 40 years previously, only to find the plant had only grown a quarter of an inch.
The veteran broadcaster, 95, marvelled at the “extraordinary” creosote bush which, despite its unremarkable appearance, is one of the oldest organisms on the planet.
For the latest episode of the BBC’s The Green Planet, the programme’s team scoured the area of the Mojave desert, in California, using Google Earth to search for the exact bush that Sir David visited in 1982 for his series Living Planet.
