We investigated the bristlecone pine tree after William Adams from London asked us: "What's the oldest tree or other living organism on Earth?" If you've got a science question you want BBC ...

while the Methuselah Tree, thought to be the world's oldest living thing, has endured almost five times as long.) It turns out that the bristlecone pine has evolved survival strategies that might ...

the oldest tree species in the world are the bristlecone pines, found in the White Mountains in California. Their scientific name is “Pinus Longaeva." The world's oldest living tree is "Methuselah." ...

They belonged to what was once one of the oldest living things on Earth — or maybe ... to take a three-dimensional scan of a piece of the tree we found next to the stump. The wood of bristlecone pines ...

Great Basin is home to some of the oldest living organisms in the world — bristlecone pines. These gnarled, weathered trees can live to be over 4,000 years old. Read more about 10 Parks for Every Tree ...

FACT: A tree is the oldest living thing on Earth. The oldest known non-cloned living thing on Earth is believed to be Methuselah, a 5000-year-old bristlecone pine in the Mountains of California.

Bristlecone pines can ... where trees are few and far between. Like the trees that produce them, bristlecone needles are long-lived; they last up to 30 or 40 years. While living bristlecone ...