The pine is named after the Hebrew patriarch Methuselah in Genesis who was said to lave lived for 969 years. The U.S. Forest Service gave the project special permission to collect cones from ...
This article originally appeared on Reno Gazette Journal: Nevada was home to oldest living thing on earth. What happened to Prometheus? In 1964, graduate student Donald Rusk Currey asked for ...
Ancient trees like Methuselah and Alerce Milenario serve as living records of the planet's history and climate changes. Methuselah, nearly 4,855 years old, might be surpassed by Alerce Milenario, ...