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

High on a ridge in California’s Eastern Sierra, a gnarled bristlecone pine known as Methuselah has reigned over almost five millennia’s worth of snowy winters and blazing summers. Methuselah ...

What might be the world's oldest tree - a bristlecone pine named Methuselah that is thousands of years old - is hidden in plain sight somewhere along the 4.5-mile Methuselah Trail in the Inyo ...

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 ...

No organism on Earth is known to live as long as the Great Basin bristlecone pine. The oldest documented tree, a well-hidden specimen nicknamed “Methuselah,” after the long-lived biblical ...

In California, Where Trees Are King, One Hardy Pine Has Survived for 4,800 Years In a harsh alpine desert, the Great Basin bristlecone pines abide amid climate change. Among them is the oldest ...

Great Basin bristlecone pine, Pinus longaeva, ≥4,900 years Bristlecone Pine ( Pinus longaeva ) in the White Mountains in California. François Gohier / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images ...

The West's ancient and resilient bristlecone pines have appeared immune to bark beetle infestations devastating conifer forests. That changed when bristlecones began dying in Utah's Wah Wah Mountains.

The oldest-known tree species in the world grows to 15 to 30 feet, but the contorted trees with their tightly packed pine needles are facing major threats: bark beetles and us.

Trees populate humans’ landscapes and language: five of the 20 most common street names in America are trees (oak, pine, maple, cedar, elm). Their branches reach science, trade and literature ...