The Methuselah Trail, located in Inyo National Forest near Big Pine, California, was recently named one of the best hikes in ...

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

The tree, which is over 4,800 years old, is found in a grove of other trees, but its exact location is kept a secret.

After analyzing its tightly packed growth rings, he was stunned to find that the tree’s age exceeded 4,800 years. Additional samples collected in 1957 confirmed this extraordinary result, officially ...

Nestled among the rugged landscapes and majestic mountains of California is a remarkable testament to time and resilience: Methuselah, a bristlecone pine tree estimated to be over 4,800 years old. As ...

Nestled among the rugged landscapes and majestic mountains of California is a remarkable testament to time and resilience: Methuselah, a bristlecone pine tree estimated to be over 4,800 years old. As ...

The Methuselah Tree The Methuselah Tree, a 4,800+ year-old bristlecone pine in California, is one of the oldest living trees known.

According to tree-ring data, Methuselah is 4,855 years old, which means that it was well established by the time ancient Egyptians built the pyramids at Giza.

Beneath the melting ice of Wyoming’s Beartooth Plateau lies a long-buried forest. Scientists recently discovered dozens of 5,900-year-old whitebark pines beneath a melting ice patch in the Rocky ...

Discover the awe-inspiring world of the most ancient trees with our list of the 9 most ancient known trees on Earth.

She named the palm that resulted from these ancient seeds Methuselah, after the oldest living biblical character who reached the ripe age of 969 years old. Just like its namesake, the date seed that ...

Like other trees aged thousands of years, Methuselah is a prominent reminder of nature’s great power. But what if I told you that the US is home to another tree that’s at least three times older than ...