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: The episode was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2003 and is frequently ranked by fans and critics as the best episode of the series . The Real-Life "Jurassic Bark": The Wollemi Pine

: In the final scene, a montage set to Connie Francis’s "I Will Wait for You" shows Seymour waiting outside Panucci’s Pizza for Fry to return for 12 years until he eventually passes away from old age. Jurassic Bark

: The episode was originally conceived with Fry finding his fossilized mother instead of a dog. The writers changed it to a pet because the original idea was considered too upsetting for the audience. : The episode was nominated for an Emmy

: Performances featuring high-energy dogs, similar to those seen on America’s Got Talent . The writers changed it to a pet because

: David Noble found a small grove of Wollemi Pines in a remote canyon in the Blue Mountains.

In 1994, a "living fossil" was discovered in Australia that earned the nickname "Jurassic Bark".

: The tree was previously only known from fossils dating back 200 million years and was long presumed extinct.