the team’s experiment was a success and they managed to grow their first plant out of these ancient seeds, a date palm tree they named Methuselah. The name refers to a figure in the Bible who ...

for even the hoariest bristlecones can generate cones with viable seeds. And however truncated that tree is, it is still the very same tree that was a seedling when, say, King Tut was a boy.

The oldest known is the Methuselah Tree, over 4,600 years and still growing. U.S. Forest Service policy is to protect the anonymity of the individual tree as a safeguard against thoughtless ...