The oldest tree species is the Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva). The oldest tree of the species is named Methuselah and is more than 4,800 years old. The longevity of the Great Basin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of Inyo National Forest's many bristlecone pine trees, photographed in 2007 (AFP/Getty) High in the arid mountain forests of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 3,200-year-old bristlecone pine in a forest with blue sky above The world's oldest trees were growing when the Great Pyramid of ...

Nevada was once home to Prometheus, an ancient bristlecone pine that was also the oldest living organism on the planet. Then someone cut it down.

If you thought the ancient evergreens at California's Big Basin Redwoods State Park were old, the state's bristlecone pines make these old-growth trees look like saplings. Hidden within Inyo National ...

Hidden high in California’s White Mountains, a solitary bristlecone pine has survived nearly 5,000 years. Guarded in secrecy, it holds climate secrets that stretch back to early civilisation.

FREMONT, Ohio — A tiny bristlecone pine tree was stolen from Spiegel Grove, the arboretum and grounds of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, around 1:30 a.m. on May 15. The ...

High on a windswept Nevada mountainside in the 1960s, a young researcher set out to read the history of climate written in tree rings. By the time he left, a living organism that had survived nearly 5 ...

Experience the wonder of ancient trees with this excerpt from the new book “In Search of the Old Ones” Anthony D. Fredericks The sky, resplendent as a shard of Navajo turquoise, highlighted the ...

The past two decades have been hard on the West’s conifer forests, which have seen wave after wave of bark beetle epidemics turning once green landscapes brown and gray. The world’s most long-lived ...

High in the arid mountain forests of eastern California there is a living tree that's older than the pyramids of Giza and the ancient city-state of Babylon — but its location is a secret. The ...