The Oldest Living Patient
The Methuselah tree does not rush. Tucked in the White Mountains of eastern California, this Great Basin bristlecone pine has been alive for nearly 5,000...
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The Methuselah tree does not rush. Tucked in the White Mountains of eastern California, this Great Basin bristlecone pine has been alive for nearly 5,000 years — older than the Egyptian pyramids, older than the alphabet, older than any nation on earth. Dendrochronologist Edmund Schulman of the University of Arizona dated the tree in 1957 by counting its growth rings and published his astonishing findings in National Geographic.…
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