While every responsible citizen was fixated on election returns this week, my mind was high on a mountainside almost midway up California’s border with Nevada. It was there, last October at roughly 10 ...

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 ...

The bristlecone pine tree is the world's oldest living non-clonal organism. This one grows in California's White Mountains. (Kat Kerlin/UC Davis) What can the world’s longest living individual teach ...

Scientists have discovered a new contender for the oldest tree in the world, potentially bumping California’s ancient bristlecone pine tree from the top spot. The state’s “Methuselah” bristlecone pine ...

Gnarled, dead bristlecone pine trees, which can live more than 5,000 years, stand where young limber pine grow around them. Limber pine is beginning to colonize areas of the Great Basin once dominated ...

FRESNO, Calif. — The bristlecone pine tree, famous for its wind-beaten, gnarly limbs and having the longest lifespan on Earth, is losing a race to the top of mountains throughout the Western United ...

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 ...

It was older than the Roman Empire, the Egyptian pyramids and Christianity. Then someone cut it down. Now known as Prometheus, the bristlecone pine tree that found its home on Wheeler Peak in Nevada's ...

Think you're getting old? Take a trip to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, on the Nevada-California border near Bishop, Calif., where the oldest tree is nearly 5,000 years old. Makes you feel like ...

Well, for starters, because bristlecones live where practically nothing else can, little competition exists for water and nutrients. Bristlecone pines can liberally spread their roots and expand their ...

The bristlecone pines of Inyo National Forest, considered some of the oldest trees on Earth, are royalty even among California’s myriad ecological treasures. Now, an Inyo employee is searching for ...

What can the world's longest living individual teach us about longevity? A team of scientists coordinated by the University of California, Davis, sequenced the Great Basin bristlecone pine genome, ...