The Old Tjikko, the world's oldest tree, has been around for 9,550 years, surviving even during the last Ice Age. The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine is another ancient tree, estimated to be 5,071 ...

And then, learn the story of Sweden’s Old Tjikko tree, another candidate for the title of world’s oldest tree.

Old Tjikko is over 9,550 years old, but the visible tree is much younger than that. Its root system has survived almost ten millennia and was no sapling when Britain was separated from mainland ...