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What is the oldest living tree in the world?

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Until 2013, Methuselah, an ancient bristlecone pine was the oldest known non-clonal organism on Earth. While Methuselah still stands as of 2016 at the ripe old age of 4,848 in the White Mountains of California, in Inyo National Forest, another bristlecone pine in the area was discovered to be over 5,000 years old.

Furthermore, what is the oldest species on Earth?

Here the list of top 10 oldest animal species on Earth.

7 Sturgeon – 200 million years old.
6 Coelacanath – 360 million years old.
5 Horseshoe Crab – 445 million years old.
4 Nautilus – 500 million years old.
3 Jelly Fish – 550 Million years old.
2 Sponge – 580 million years old.
1 Cyanobacteria – 2.8 billion years old.

What tree lives the longest?

But which tree has been around the longest? Until 2013, the oldest individual tree in the world was Methuselah, a 4,845-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) in the White Mountains of California.

How old is the oldest tree on record?

World's Oldest Living Tree -- 9550 years old -- Discovered In Sweden. Summary: The world's oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden.

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What is the oldest living thing on earth?

The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) is a species of pine tree. It is found in the American West, mostly in Utah, Nevada, and California. One of these trees has been measured to be 5,065 years old! That makes it the longest living non-clonal organism on Earth.

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Can some trees live forever?

Trees do not live forever. They do age and eventually die. Some live much longer than others though, and it turns out that some of the longest living trees survive best in the more extreme climates and situations. For example the oldest living tree in the US is over 5000 years old.

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Who cut down the oldest tree in the world?

?In 1964, Donal Rusk Currey killed the oldest tree ever. To this day, there has still never been an older tree discovered. The tree was a Great Basin bristlecone pine, and Currey didn't meant to kill it. It was an accident, and one he didn't really understand the ramifications of until he started counting rings.

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What is the oldest city in the world?

Here's our list of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.

Damascus, Syria. The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world. (
Jericho, West Bank.
Aleppo, Syria.
Athens, Greece.
Argos, Greece.
Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Byblos, Lebanon.
Sidon, Lebanon.

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What is the oldest planet in the universe?

Jupiter is the biggest of the brood. Despite being mostly gas by bulk, it's more than 300 times the mass of Earth. For that reason astronomers suspect the planet was the oldest, able to scoop up more material out of the disk before its younger siblings appeared. The new study supports the idea of a firstborn Jupiter.

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How old is the oldest dog in the world?

The greatest reliable age recorded for a dog is 29 years 5 months for an Australian cattle-dog named Bluey, owned by Les Hall of Rochester, Victoria, Australia. Bluey was obtained as a puppy in 1910 and worked among cattle and sheep for nearly 20 years before being put to sleep on 14 November 1939.

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What is the widest tree in the world?

The tree called "General Sherman" is not only the biggest giant sequoia, but it is also the biggest tree in the world. He is 83.8 m (274.9 feet) tall, his girth at breast height is 24,10 m (79 feet) (near the ground it is 31,3 m or 102,6 feet).

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What is the oldest animal in the world?

Adwaita, an Aldabra giant tortoise, died at an estimated age of 255 in March 2006 in Alipore Zoo, Kolkata, India. If verified, it will have been the oldest terrestrial animal in the world. Tu'i Malila, a radiated tortoise, died at an age of 188 years in May 1965, at the time the oldest verified vertebrate.

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Which is the widest tree in the world?

The largest tree in the world is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in California's Sequoia National Park. Called General Sherman, the tree is about 52,500 cubic feet (1,487 cubic meters) in volume.

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What is the oldest thing in the world?

This ancient zircon crystal is the oldest known material formed on Earth. Scientists have dated the crystal to about 4.4 billion years, making it the earliest confirmed piece of the planet's crust. The crystal was found in an arid region north of Perth, Australia, in a low range of hills called the Jack Hills, in 2001.

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What is the oldest living animal in the world?

Here we list ten animals that would have the longest lifespans living under ideal circumstances.

Red Sea Urchin. Red sea urchins are believed to be almost immortal.
Koi Fish.
Long Finned Eel.
Macaw.
African Elephant.
Galapagos Giant Tortoise.
Bowhead Whale.
Greenland Shark.

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Which is the oldest tree on earth?

Methuselah, a bristlecone pine tree from California's White Mountains, is thought to be almost 5,000 years old—and the oldest non-clonal tree in the world. The exact location of the gnarled, twisted Methuselah is a Forest Service secret, for its protection (that might not be it above).

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Which is the oldest tree in the world?

The oldest tree in the world was alive when Stonehenge was under construction and around the time humans developed their first writing system

Four thousand year old Bristlecone Pine tree in California's White Mountain Range.
Landscape at Great Basin National Park, Nevada.

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Which is the longest tree in the world?

redwoods

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How long a tree can live?

Answer 2: It depends on the species tree.Some species don't live too long, maybe 40 or 50 years for some palm trees, but some can live up to 5000 years, such as the Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva).

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What is the oldest known tree in North America?

Found in western Sweden, scientists believe that this spruce is 9,550 years old. Before, pine trees in North America had been called the oldest at 4,000 to 5,000 years old. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, a bristlecone pine named Methuselah in California's White Mountains was aged 4,768.

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What trees live the longest?

Lords of the Rings: Oldest Tree Species on Earth

Great Basin bristlecone pine, 4,844 rings. ( cwsteeds/flickr)
Patagonian cypress, 3,622 rings. ( andreaugarte/flickr)
Giant sequoia, 3,266 rings. (
Western juniper, 2,675 rings. (
Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine, 2,435 rings. (
Redwood, 2,200 rings. (
Foxtail pine, 2,110 rings. (
Alpine larch, 1,917 rings. (

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How old is the oldest tree in the world?

Great Basin bristlecone pine trees (Pinus longaeva) from California and Nevada top the list of the oldest trees. There are several that are around 5,000 years old. The oldest is 5,066 years old and located in the White Mountains of California.

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Where is the oldest olive tree in the world?

This ancient olive tree is located on the Greek island of Crete and is one of seven olive trees in the Mediterranean believed to be at least 2,000 to 3,000 years old. Although its exact age cannot be verified, the Olive Tree of Vouves might be the oldest among them, estimated at over 3,000 years old.

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What is the oldest redwood tree?

The trees are taller and their trunks thinner than their relatives, the giant sequoias in the southern Sierra Nevada, which are the biggest living things in the world by volume. The oldest coastal redwood is 2,520 years old and the oldest giant sequoia is about 3,200 years old, Burns said.

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