In the quiet reaches of California’s White Mountains, one tree has survived through 4,800 years of storms, droughts, empires, ...

The Old Tjikko, the world's oldest tree, has been around for 9,550 years, surviving even during the last Ice Age. The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine is another ancient tree, estimated to be 5,071 ...

Great Basin is home to some of the oldest living organisms in the world — bristlecone pines. These gnarled, weathered trees can live to be over 4,000 years old. Read more about 10 Parks for Every Tree ...

as is the case with the Methuselah Tree, a bristlecone pine more than 46 centuries old. But it's truly baffling to learn under what conditions it has accomplished this extraordinary feat.

The tree is the world’s third oldest after a Great Basin bristlecone pine (5,062 years old) and Methuselah (4,845 years old), both of which from the same species ‘Pinus longaeva’ and living in ...

Cut down the tree. At Great Basin National Park ... At that point, the oldest known organism was several decades younger (a bristlecone pine in California named Methuselah). Hoping he’d miscounted, ...

Less than 15 miles from the fire, the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest contains trees that are more than 4,000 years old. The Patriarch Tree is the world's largest bristlecone pine tree.

It used to be the oldest tree in the region until scientists discovered another Great Basin bristlecone pine nearby that was over 5,000 years old. The Pando is a group of interconnected quaking ...

Less than 15 miles from the fire, the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest contains trees that are more than 4,000 years old. The Patriarch Tree is the world's largest bristlecone pine tree.