If you thought the ancient evergreens at California's Big Basin Redwoods State Park were old, the state's bristlecone pines ...

The oldest tree species is the Great Basin bristlecone pine, with many trees dating back around 4,000 years. ... Guinness World Records clocks the tree at 4,856 years old as of 2024.

Chao Yen / Flickr / CC BY-ND 2.0. 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 ...

In an old-growth longleaf pine savanna, the trees’ pine needles sing in the wind. Once considered forests, these landscapes in the southeastern U.S. coastal plain are open-canopied and sunny ...

Ancient whitebark pine trees emerging from 5000-year-old ice patch in the Beartooth Mountains of Wyoming (photo credit: Daniel Stahle) Yellowstone Ice Patches Melting ...

The tree “is about 125 years old,” Veitch said. “When we looked at it four weeks ago it looked pretty good. Today that tree is practically completely dead.

At the Pfynwald forest in the picturesque Rhône Valley, scientists in 2003 started giving some of the century-old Scots pine trees growing there double the amount of water they would naturally ...