Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 3,200-year-old bristlecone pine in a forest with blue sky above The world's oldest trees were growing when the Great Pyramid of ...

Of the 110 or so pine species, three cousins classified as foxtail pines live for thousands of years and hold many answers to anti-aging. Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva), Rocky Mountain ...

Nevada was once home to Prometheus, an ancient bristlecone pine that was also the oldest living organism on the planet. Then someone cut it down.

In 1964, graduate student Donald Rusk Currey asked for permission to cut down a tree growing on Wheeler Peak in Nevada's Great Basin National Park. Though there are different accounts on the ...