is virtually absent among bristlecone pines: disease. The tree has a dense, highly resinous wood that is a formidable barrier to invasion by insects and bacteria. The resinous wood and the White ...

The Great Basin bristlecone pine is found in the western United States Mayflies live a day, humans live a century, if we're lucky, but what is the oldest living organism on the planet? For ...

It's hard enough to accept that a tree that was a seedling before the Egyptian Pyramids went up is still alive today, as is the case with the Methuselah Tree, a bristlecone pine more than 46 ...

For years, scientists have analyzed the varying widths of bristlecone pines' annual rings as windows into thousands of years of past temperature patterns in the region. (Trees tend to grow more in ...