In the quiet reaches of California’s White Mountains, one tree has survived through 4,800 years of storms, droughts, empires, ...

Ancient Chinese wisdom believed that if you tried a new food, really experimented with something out of your comfort zone, ...

as is the case with the Methuselah Tree, a bristlecone pine more than 46 centuries old. But it's truly baffling to learn under what conditions it has accomplished this extraordinary feat.

The world's oldest living tree is "Methuselah." The tree's exact age is ... down that they realized it was an estimated 4,900 years old. Bristlecone pines are known to scientists as ...

making a four-mile loop through the Methuselah Grove, where the dendrochronologist Edmund Schulman established the age of several extremely old trees back in the 1950s. The oldest known is the ...