The tallest bristlecone pine is but 60 feet tall, and most of its kind are much shorter. Clearly, bigger is not better in such a brutal environment as that found at high altitude in the White ...

It's hard enough to accept that a tree that was a seedling before the Egyptian Pyramids went up is still alive today, as is the case with the Methuselah Tree, a bristlecone pine more than 46 ...

The Great Basin bristlecone pine is found in the western United States Mayflies live a day, humans live a century, if we're lucky, but what is the oldest living organism on the planet? For ...