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The tree, which was at least 4,862 years old and possibly more than 5,000, was cut down in 1964 by a graduate student and United States Forest Service personnel for research purposes. [1] Those involved did not know of its world-record age before the cutting, and the circumstances and decision-making process remain controversial.
Another bristlecone specimen, WPN-114, nicknamed "Prometheus", was more than 4,844 years old when cut down in 1964, with an estimated germination date of 2880 BC. A dendrochronology, based on these trees and other bristlecone pine samples, extends back to about 9000 BC, albeit with a single gap of about 500 years. [20] [3]
Cut down by Donald Rusk Currey in 1964. [9] Methuselah: 4,856 [nb 1] 2,832 BCE: Great Basin bristlecone pine Pinus longaeva: White Mountains (California) United States: It is the oldest known living (non-clonal) tree in the world. [11] Alerce Milenario or Gran Abuelo: 3,653–5,484 1,630+ BCE: Patagonian cypress Fitzroya cupressoides ...
Researchers in Chile identify a challenger to the world's oldest tree: an alerce in Alerce Costero National Park that may be over 5,000 years old. California's 'Methuselah' bristlecone pine may no ...
Donald Rusk Currey (January 24, 1934 – June 6, 2004) [1] was an American professor of geography.While known in academia for his extensive research and exploration of relics of the ancient Lake Bonneville in the eastern Great Basin, he was best known to the public for his controversial felling of Prometheus, the oldest living non-clonal organism known at the time, while a graduate student in ...
Imagine a single living organism older than Jesus and the pyramids that was born during the last Ice Age.
The Senator in 2012 The Senator in 2011. The Senator was the biggest and oldest bald cypress [1] tree in the world, located in Big Tree Park, Longwood, Florida.At the time of its demise in 2012, it was approximately 3,500 years old, 125 feet (38 m) tall, and with a trunk diameter of 11.27 feet (3.44 m). [2]
California's oldest tree, a Palmer's oak thought to be 13,000 to 18,000 years old, ... perhaps even a dramatically scaled down development footprint. ...