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.n addition, the Pogonophora, Echiura and Sipuncula, previously regarded as separate phyla, are now regarded as sub-groups of polychaetes. Annelids are considered members of the Lophotrochozoa, a super-phylum of protostomes that also includes molluscs, brachiopods, flatworms and nemerteans.