A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, botanists have identified a towering, ancient species of tree in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains ...

In this gee-whiz science and great outdoors piece, an expert in tree-ring research shares some of the details of what trees can tell us — and whether or not their rings can reveal their age.

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 ...

Subsequent coring and analysis of Methuselah by Tom Harlan at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research dated the innermost tree ring to 2491 BCE. Thus, in 2023 Methuselah’s age would be 4,514 years old.

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.

The oldest tree rings analyzed by the researchers came from a Douglas-fir that began as a seedling in the year 950 near Great Central Lake on Canada’s Vancouver Island.

The oldest tree species in the world are the bristlecone pines with scientific name “Pinus Longaeva,” of California's White Mountains, USA. News Sports Indy 500 Things To Do Opinion Advertise ...

When Chris Watson discovered an old tree near Spruce Lake in the Saint John area, he counted 383 tree rings. Once analyzed in a lab, the tree was found to be more than 400 years old. (Submitted by ...