Visit this area of the White Mountains in California's Sierra Nevada region, where you can hike and see trees that predate ...

Bonita Gibson is part of a small population of supercentenarians in the United States, or someone who is at least 110 years ...

Some national parks, like Sequoia and Redwood, are known for their ancient trees. But the world's oldest tree was from ...

In the quiet reaches of California’s White Mountains, one tree has survived through 4,800 years of storms, droughts, empires, and empires' collapse. Known as Methuselah, this bristlecone pine ...

One bristlecone pine tree was found with 35-year-old pine needles that were still functional and photosynthesizing despite drought. Most pines can only do this for 2 to 3 years.

Until 2013, Methuselah, an ancient bristlecone pine was the oldest known non-clonal organism on Earth. Methuselah was 4,789 years old when examined in 1957, with an estimated seeding date of 2833 BC.

The oldest tree species is the Great Basin bristlecone pine, with many trees dating back around 4,000 years. The oldest tree is named Methuselah and it dates back nearly 5,000 years.

Bristlecone pines: Lessons from the oldest living trees In the rugged White Mountains of California, the ancient bristlecone pine forest is home to the oldest trees on earth.

Unearth the oldest trees in the world, some over 4,000 years old, are living testaments to Earth's history. Among them are Methuselah, a bristlecone pine in California's White Mountains, and the ...

For decades, bristlecone pines, which can survive for up to 5,000 years, were thought to be the planet’s oldest living things. Now a tree in Chile is posing a challenge. ByCraig Welch ...

Shortly after their arrival, they located a bristlecone pine tree that a local ranger had named “Patriarch.” Samples taken from the tree proved it to be only 1,500 years old.

They found 12 living Rocky Mountain bristlecone pines that were more than 1,600 years old and four that were more than 2,100 years old. CB-90-11 was the oldest identified, with a minimum age of 2,435.