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Scientists collecting samples from a giant redwood tree
May 26, 2012 | Redwood Tree, California
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."
