Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. According to Guinness World Records, the oldest tree species in the world are the bristlecone pines, found in the White Mountains in California.
DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed ...
Scientists have compiled the world's oldest family tree from human bones interred at a 5,700-year-old tomb in the Cotswolds, UK. Analysis of DNA from the tomb's occupants revealed the people ...
Call it a grand-phibian. Scientists have unearthed a fossil of the world’s oldest tadpole in Argentina — a shock finding that could alter our understanding of amphibian evolution, experts say.
But the oldest tree on the list, an unnamed bristlecone ... How long you live depends partly on your place in the world; your ecological niche. The organisms at the top of the food chain have ...
It's the oldest Christmas tree in the world! The scientist who discovered its age named the plant after his favourite dog. Old Tjikko is over 9,550 years old, but the visible tree is much younger ...