California, the Golden State, is a land of many wonders. From its towering redwoods to its sprawling deserts, it is a place of diverse and stunning beauty. But the wonders of California are not limited to its landscapes. Beneath the surface of its waters, both freshwater and marine, dwell...
Now comes the most ambitious step of the project:getting the new trees into the ground.Plantings of two dozen clones from California's huge coastal redwoods will take place Monday in seven nations:Australia,New Zealand,Great Britain,Ireland,Canada,Germany and the U.S. ...
But the Old Age crown of non-clonal, individual living multicellular things goes to Methuselah, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine in California. It is 4,800 years old, give or take a few decades. We have to take core samples to get the exact ages of these trees, and we're pretty reluctan...