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 ...

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 ...

Good morning, fellow Escapists. The holidays are in full swing, and with all the excitement and cheer typically comes a healthy helping of yuletide stress. Even in the best of times, battling crowds ...

The 4,853-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine tree known as Methuselah grows in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains of Inyo County. (Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency) Scientists ...

2005-07-03 04:00:00 PDT Bishop (Inyo County)-- At 10,000 feet, the pine grove might be the highest natural history museum in the country, and with the serrated ridge of the Sierra Nevada standing 20 ...

Firefighters in Central California were working Tuesday to contain a wildfire near the Nevada border threatening a forest home to the oldest trees in the world, after making good progress on Monday, ...

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 ...

BIG PINE, Calif. • The bristlecone pines loomed out of the mist like ghostly apparitions, their limbs reaching in all directions. Walking among these ancients — the trees are the oldest living things ...

For thousands of years, wind-whipped, twisted bristlecone pines have been clinging to existence on the arid, stony crests of eastern California’s White Mountains, in conditions inhospitable to most ...

When legions of slaves toiled to build the Great Pyramid at Giza in 2560 B.C., Methuselah was already growing. When Columbus crossed the Atlantic, this ancient bristlecone pine tree was probably more ...

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 ...