The world-famous museum is now in the possession of an ancient slab of a sequoia tree. After carefully counting each ring of the tree, paleobotanist Scott Wing determined that the tree lived for ...

The careful treatment process exposed the natural surface of the wood, enhancing its appearance by revealing the sequoia's growth rings. Tree rings are created under the bark as the organism grows ...

a former postdoctoral research fellow at Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research who is now a biologist at the Sequoia-Kings Canyon ...