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May 26, 2012
May 26, 2012
Redwood Tree, California
Photograph by Michael Nichols, National Geographic
This Month in Photo of the Day: Adventure and Exploration Photos
Partway up a 350-foot tree, botanist Marie Antoine (at right) passes a slender core sample of its wood—750 years of redwood biography—to canopy ecologist Giacomo Renzullo. Research now shows that the older such trees get, the more wood they put on.
See more pictures from the October 2009 feature story, "The Super Trees."
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