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Prometheus, the 5,000-year-old tree, chopped down accidentally by a scientist: “I knew it was quite old”

Back in 1964, a scientific decision ended up destroying one of the oldest living organisms ever discovered. Prometheus, a Great Basin bristlecone pine growing high on the slopes of Wheeler Peak in ...
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A graduate student cut down a tree in 1964. Scientists later realized it was older than almost anything alive on Earth

Donald R. Currey pressed his increment borer into the trunk of an ancient bristlecone pine and hit a problem. The tool was too small. The tree, known to local mountaineers as Prometheus, was simply ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Nevada’s oldest known tree lives on in mythic stories of its death

TUCSON, Ariz. — On the fourth floor of a research facility at the University of Arizona, the remnants of a famous Nevada tree anchors a display on one of modern science’s most notorious blunders.
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A 4,900-Year-Old Tree Called Prometheus Was Once The World's Oldest. Then, A Scientist Cut It Down

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...
AZ Central

The world’s oldest tree might or might not be sitting in a warehouse in Tucson

TUCSON — In the basement of the University of Arizona’s Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, in a climate-controlled storage room that looks like a shrunken version of the one in the first Indiana Jones ...
The Spectrum

Nevada's oldest known tree lives on in stories of its death

LAS VEGAS — On the fourth floor of a research facility at the University of Arizona, the remnants of a famous Nevada tree anchors a display on one of modern science's most notorious blunders.