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Coast redwoods can grow 367 feet tall

California's coast redwoods may grow to 367 feet, about the height of a 35-story skyscraper.

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The trees can reach ages of 2,000 years and regularly live for 600. Relatives of today's coast redwoods thrived 160 million years ago.

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