🌲 The "Metasequoia" a living fossil tree grows in the aquarium from @Supertramp.Y (小红书) 🇨🇳 These small trees have developed from a few small shoots. Surprisingly, they grow completely under water and seem to feel at home there. The Metasequoia, or Dawn/Chinese Redwood, is a "living fossil" — once thought extinct and only known from fossils until it was rediscovered in China in 1941! It’s one of the few deciduous conifers, shedding its needles every fall. Fast-growing, majestic, and ancient —