Nevada was once home to Prometheus, an ancient bristlecone pine that was also the oldest living organism on the planet. Then someone cut it down.
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How a scientist’s mistake wiped out a 5,000-year-old ancient tree
High on a windswept Nevada mountainside in the 1960s, a young researcher set out to read the history of climate written in tree rings. By the time he left, a living organism that had survived nearly 5 ...
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