510 BCE: Rising from a mountain’s shallow soil, a bristlecone pine begins its life. This Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine is one of the oldest trees in the world, only outlived by its cousin the Great ...

Brian Smithers stands in front of a bristlecone pine tree. Credit: Christian Baker Brian Smithers, a researcher assistant professor at Montana State University, is standing in front a massive tree in ...

What can the world’s longest living individual teach us about longevity? A team of scientists coordinated by UC Davis sequenced the Great Basin bristlecone pine genome, which could help unlock the ...

Late-summer storms hurl hail against the granite slope. The dawn air freezes all but six weeks of the year. There is no sign of soil. But on this lonely ridge, the oldest known tree in the Pikes Peak ...

Bristlecone pine trees grow in harsh, dry mountain climates and can live up to 5,000 years old. The trees have adapted to these rough habitats by building up dense woody trunks that can hold up ...

All year round in the mountains you can see green, and we are not talking about money. Covered in snow or surrounded by wildflowers, Colorado’s many species of evergreen trees are true to their name — ...

11:07 a.m. June 29, 2022: A previous version of this story misspelled Constance Millar’s first name. Forest pathologist Martin MacKenzie strode forward on a narrow path through California’s mythic ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the Great Basin bristlecone pine, the oldest known individual non-clonal organism on Earth, in a study that may eventually help explain how the species survives ...

Of the 110 or so pine species, three cousins classified as foxtail pines live for thousands of years and hold many answers to anti-aging. Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva), Rocky Mountain ...