The Trees That Can Live For Thousands Of Years
High in the mountains of the American West, bristlecone pine trees have been standing for thousands of years. They were young when Stonehenge was being built and were already hundreds of years old when most of the Egyptian pyramids were constructed. The oldest known individual non-clonal trees on Earth have survived more than 4,800 years of changing climates and civilizations. These small, gnarly trees grow incredibly slowly in arid environments where few other plants can challenge them for reso...
