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November 14, 2012 03:47 pm PST

The oldest living tree tells all

"In 1964, a geologist in the Nevada wilderness discovered the oldest living thing on earth, after he killed it." A terrific opening sentence to Hunter Oatman-Stanford's story in Collector's Weekly about bristlecone pine trees, which can live for thousands of years. By the time of Currey’s survey, trees were typically dated using core samples taken [...]


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