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

A decade or so ago, Mohlenbrock, a professor of botany at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, visited the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest ... he wrote in Natural History (5/85).

Batman and Robin would likely approve. An opulent castle-like residence at 724 Bristlecone Drive — with 10 bedrooms, 13 ...

Less than 15 miles from the fire, the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest contains trees that are more than 4,000 years old. The Patriarch Tree is the world's largest bristlecone pine tree.

Methuselah is a bristlecone pine, and the world's oldest living thing. His growth rings document nearly 47 centuries of survival. Bristlecones grow so slowly that a century of tree rings adds less ...

Taking a look at the most spectacular flops in the history of the world ... student unwittingly kills the oldest-known tree, a bristlecone pine dating back 5,000 years, when he chops it down ...