The trunks of Palm trees do not get thicker as they age; rather, they simply grow taller. Some Palms have trunks that are as skinny as pencils. Fossil Palm trees date back 100 million years to the Jurassic Era. Muslims regard the Date Palm as the tree of life, as its roots can be traced back more than 5,000 years.
At last count, there were more than 9,000 species of segmented worms on the planet today. Some of the most common types of segmented worms include earthworms, leeches, and sandworms. Earthworms make up the largest and most diverse group of segmented worms in the world. In all, there are more 2,700 different types of earthworms living in every corner of the earth today.
The annelids (Annelida, from Latin anellus, little ring), also known as the ringed worms or segmented worms, are a large phylum, with over 17,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches.ach segment has the same sets of organs and, in most polychaetes, has a pair of parapodia that many species use for locomotion. Septa separate the segments of many species, but are poorly defined or absent in others, and Echiura and Sipuncula show no obvious signs of segmentation.