A tree thousands of years old

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/science/baobab-trees-africa-climate-change.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O04.zbZy.C6gluUIRyOcy&smid=url-share Well, sometimes nature is not understood unless some entity feed them with money for them to continue its research to survice science for us to use still more. Why these trees survive for so long? Since the dinosoure era? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/science/baobab-trees-africa-climate-change.html#:~:text=By,evolutionary%20origins.