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5,000-year-old ‘Great Grandfather’ trees

May 22 , 2023 553 days 478 0
  • In a forest in southern Chile, a giant tree has survived for thousands of years.
  • The tree is Known as the "Great Grandfather."
  • It is a Fitzroya cupressoides, a type of cypress tree that is endemic to the south of the continent.
  • The trunk of this tree measuring four meters (13 feet) in diameter and 28 meters tall.
  • The sample extracted and other dating methods suggest that the tree is up to 5,484 years old.
  • The estimated age would beat the current record-holder-Methuselaha, a 4,853-year-old bristlecone pine tree in California of USA, by more than half a millennium.

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