I Think That I Shall Never See …

Posted in Oddities by Greg Ross on September 12th, 2006

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In 1964, grad student Donald Currey cut down a bristlecone pine in eastern Nevada to see how old it was.

It was 4,844 years old. He had killed the oldest thing in the world.

Bonus sad noble tree story here.