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

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

It was there, last October at roughly 10,000 feet elevation, that I celebrated my 40th birthday with Methuselah, a 4,853-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine tree. Methuselah is the oldest known ...

The oldest known living bristlecone is estimated to be over 4,800 years old. Named "Methuselah," the tree's precise location inside Inyo National Forest isn't publicized, ...

Few know where the oldest tree in the world is – the Forest Service doesn't reveal the exact location to protect it. Here's what we do know about it.

In eastern California, a Great Basin bristlecone pine known as Methuselah has long been considered Earth’s oldest living thing. According to tree-ring data, Methuselah is 4,855 years old, which ...

An intrepid horticulturist has delivered to the U.S. Botanic Garden the babies of a 4,768-year-old bristlecone pine -- the first step toward cloning the world's oldest known living tree. Jared ...

The oldest individual tree in the world -- nicknamed "Methuselah" after the longest-lived person in the Bible-- has been alive for more than 4,800 years old (4,854 years as of 2022). Founded by Dr ...