Normally the fascination relating to fossils stems from the palaeontologist field of T-Rex bones and Pterodactyl skulls.
But the fossil of a tree, the Pitys withamii, that predates the time of the dinosaurs, has begun to wow visitors to the National History Museum after it was moved from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh last year for research purposes.
It is not widely known that Edinburgh is home to one of the world's oldest trees which was discovered during excavations at the Craigleith quarry in the 19th century - the now site of Craigleith retail park.
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The tree is understood to weigh 10-tons and is 10.5 metres in length and is an unbelievable 330 million years old.
Dinosaurs were understood to have first appeared around 240 million years ago.
