That’s exactly what happened to an unfortunate graduate student named Donald R. Currey back in the summer of 1964, who ended ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Not many living organisms have been around long enough to ...

This article originally appeared on Reno Gazette Journal: Nevada was home to oldest living thing on earth. What happened to Prometheus? In 1964, graduate student Donald Rusk Currey asked for ...

A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have weathered through tons of challenges. Scientists have dated them, and locals ...

Ancient trees like Methuselah and Alerce Milenario serve as living records of the planet's history and climate changes. Methuselah, nearly 4,855 years old, might be surpassed by Alerce Milenario, ...

In the quiet reaches of California’s White Mountains, one tree has survived through 4,800 years of storms, droughts, empires, and empires' collapse. Known as Methuselah, this bristlecone pine has ...

The pine is named after the Hebrew patriarch Methuselah in Genesis who was said to lave lived for 969 years. The U.S. Forest Service gave the project special permission to collect cones from ...

Thomas Pakenham has spent the past four years looking at old trees in every corner of the globe. His favorite? Well, he loves the tulip poplar that George Washington planted at Mount Vernon, but he is ...

The world’s oldest cypress trees and the history of North Carolina’s first life-saving stations. UNC Wilmington students paddle deep into the Black River, where some of the world’s oldest living ...