Richard Preston: Climbing the World's Biggest Trees
This video was about the worlds biggest, oldest and tallest trees; Redwoods. I've always wanted to travel to California to see the Sequoia trees. The oldest tree on earth is a Redwood that is said to be 3,000 to 5,000 years old. I envy the people that climb these huge tree's and explore their ecosystems in the sky. Preston explained that climbing into the tops of these trees is like diving into a coral reef, many species of micro organisms that live in the tops of these trees are unknown. I also thought that it was very interesting how the Redwood trees reiterate themselves and grow limbs that turn into copy's of themselves and a new full tree grows out of the main Redwood. The tree's also grow limbs that attach themselves to the main trunk to better support it, exactly like the flying buttress' that are built on the old Cathedral's in Europe that we learn about in Art History.
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