Meet The World’s Oldest Tree — Nearly 5,000 Years Old And Born Before The Pyramids

At over 4,800 years old, Methuselah holds the record for the world’s oldest non-clonal tree — one that grows as a single entity — with a confirmed age. Schulman, a scientist who had spent years scouring the western United States in search of ancient trees, was on his way home from Idaho when he stopped to investigate rumors of unusually old pines in a high-elevation grove. High in the desolate ranges of the American West, where winters scrape the earth with ice and summers parch it bone-dry, Great Basin bristlecone pines (Pinus longaeva) like Methuselah have mastered the art of patience.

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