Now comes the news of Argentina, of the Massif of the Desert, in the south of Patagonia. There, the team led by the geobiologist Alan Channing of the University of Cardiff in Wales has put a new brand to the fox tail. While until now it was thought that this genus had been created 65 million years ago, thanks to fossils that have just been found there it has been known that they are much older: It's about 150 million years. From the time of the Upper Jurassic, in which the vegetation contrasted greatly with the current one. Without the appearance of angiosperes with “real” flowers, conifers, ginkgos and cycadaceans predominated.

Although today it is used for the consolidation and healing of other plants, the fox tail has another peculiar name. Name reminiscent of an old use: tin. He's wearing it because it's good for cleaning the packaging made with this metal.