Drone footage has captured a natural land formation resembling a giant, leafy tree in China's Gobi Desert, except it's carved from earth. Water and wind erosion sculpted this "Tree of the Earth" on a dry riverbed in Baicheng County within Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where branching gullies spread like a trunk and limbs. You've seen the same branching patterns before when lightning strikes and in the layout of blood vessels in the human body. That's because the same universal forces govern all matter, repeating nature's blueprint from the microcosmic to the cosmos.