An ancient Great Basin bristlecone pine in California's White Mountains, nearly 5,000 years old, holds the title of the ...

Nevada was once home to Prometheus, an ancient bristlecone pine that was also the oldest living organism on the planet. Then ...

A post circulating on X has revived a long-running question: What is the oldest tree in the world? The viral claim features a baobab tree said to be 6,000 years old and located in Tanzania. The ...

On a talus-strewn slope in eastern California’s mountains, a gnarled tree twists toward the sky. It is Methuselah, a Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) and one of the world’s oldest trees.

Why it's incredible: The forest preserves some of the oldest trees in the world. The Cairo Fossil Forest is a unique collection of 385 million-year-old trees preserved in an abandoned quarry in ...

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 ...