Where is the oldest tree located at?
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If you want to know about a currently living tree, then this is it.  Ten thousand feet up in California's White Mountains lives the oldest living thing on Earth. It is a bristlecone pine that was around when the Egyptian Pyramids were built. Ironically, after weathering all the droughts, high winds, and lightning strikes that must have struck over the millennia, the nearly 5,000-year-old Methuselah Tree now faces threats from the one force of nature that seemingly can do it harm: people.
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Where is Calimecita when you need her!!!\n\nArchaeopteridales\n(Upper Devonian to Mississippian)\nPerhaps one of the most remarkable paleobotanical discoveries is the work done by Charles B. Beck in the 1960s. Through careful and painstaking work, he was able to demonstrate that the fossil wood known as Callixylon and the leaves known as Archaeopteris, shown at left, were actually part of the same plant. This may sound trivial, until one realizes that the fossil record seldom preserves whole organisms intact. \nIn the case of Archaeopteris, the leaves were reminiscent of ferns, and in fact produced and released spores in a manner consistent with this interpretation. As a result, they were considered to be some sort of fossil fern. The wood Callixylon, by contrast, was considered similar to modern conifers, and was placed with the seed plants. When Dr. Beck demonstrated that fossils of Archaeopteris were physically attached to Callixylon wood, it was realised that the plant, now collectively called Archaeopteris, was actually an extinct group of plants unlike any living plants today -- it had both wood and fern-like reproduction. \n\nYes...........I cut and pasted. (Hoping it would all make sense to you!!)
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"The oldest indications for the existence of real land plants have been found in cores from boreholes in Oman. They contained fours of mutually connected spores (tetrads) enveloped by remains of the spore sac in which they had been formed. Research on the spore walls point to a relationship with the liverworts. The fossils have been found in the Middle Ordovician and are about 475 million years old."\n\nSee the link below for 2 pages of info on the development of this.
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There are rocks older than 3.5 billion years on all continents, but the oldest found so far is Acasta Gneisses in northwestern Canada near Great Slave Lake (4.03 billion years old). \n\nOne of the oldest forms of life on earth is the stomatolites (3.5 billion years old or so), which are still found living in western Australia and a few other places.
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one of the most ancient ...\ntry this : traces of beer found in Southern Iran dated back 8,000 years.\nOne of the oldest civilizations on earth; and the most advanced of their time, for a long period (sadly, not any more)
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Leatherback turtles are supposed to be the oldest species among the sea turtles. \nhttp://www.statiapark.org/tw/tw_species.htm
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The Baobab tree, which is among the largest and longest living trees on earth, is also one of its most unusual and remarkable trees. A native of Africa, it has flourished for thousands of years in the arid savannah close to the equator. The tree, which can grow up to 30 metres in height, has a very strange appearance. It has an enormous, thick bulbous trunk and stunted branches that look like gnarled roots spreading wide. The branches are bare for nine months of the year, since the tree puts out leaves only twice a year, for a few weeks at a time when the rains come to the plains. Thus, the Baobab tree, for most of the time, looks as if it has been pulled out of the ground and stuffed back in upside down! \n\nThe tree's unusual appearance has given rise to many interesting folktales about its origins. African Bushmen have a legend that tells of the God Thora who took a dislike to the Baobab growing in his garden. He tossed it over the wall of paradise to Earth below, and although it landed upside down, it continued to grow! Another folk tale says that the Baobab was amongst the first trees to appear on Earth. When the palm tree, the flame tree and the fig tree appeared, the Baobab began to grumble that it wanted to be taller, to have brilliant flame coloured flowers, and bear tasty fruit too. The Gods grew angry at this incessant wailing and pulled up the tree by its roots, and replanted in upside down to keep it quiet! \n\nThere are only three months of rain in a year. So the Baobab spreads its roots wide and collects as much rainwater as it can. Then it stores the water in its bark and lower trunk for use during the dry months. Bushmen, and even elephants wandering through the desert extract water from pulpy fibre when there is drought. \n\nThe leaves of this tree resemble an outstretched hand with open fingers. Its large flowers are white and bell-shaped, and open only at night. The tree produces an edible, gourd like fruit called "monkey bread", which is a favourite with baboons. This fruit has the highest concentration of vitamin C of any plant. \n\nThe Baobab is a friendly, nurturing tree and creates it own eco-system as its supports the life of countless creatures from the largest of mammals to the thousands of tiny creatures scurrying in and out of its numerous crevices. Baobabs may live up to 3000 years! There are trees alive today that were growing when the Roman Empire ruled Europe! Baobabs are very difficult to kill. Even when burnt, they will form new bark, and keep on growing. When they do die, they simply rot from the inside, and suddenly collapse, leaving only a heap of fibres. These majestic trees are revered by the people who live with them. In Africa, old Baobabs are given names, and each name begins with the word "mother", for in the tough savannah grasslands, the great Baobab is a mother of life, symbolising endurance, conservation, creativity and ingenuity.
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Good frickin question. Let me know where I can find the trees!
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The oldest megaliths in the world are located on the islands of Malta and Gozo. Archeologists have dated the stone structures of Ggantija (the Giant's Tower), Hagar Qim, Tarxien, and Mnajdra to about 5200 BCE. The first settlers arrived on Malta and Gozo around 5000 BCE from Sicily.\n\nRead more about it here:\nhttp://www.hmml.org/centers/malta/history.html
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1854 does sound about right; see source below.  Basically it hasn't had anything substantial for a while; the last eruption before 1854 seems to be over 2,000 years ago.
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the red-fir, Oregon-pine ( 689,000 ft )is the top ten tallest tree so far.\ngreat question. you sound very intellegent.\nkeep it up
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science of dating the ages of trees
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It appears to be a tree, native to Australia.
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The oldest 'road' (paved) that I can think of at the moment is Route 66....hope that helps!
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fossil resin produced by pine trees
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Totally, completely, 100% incorrect information!  Where do you get this nonsense from?\n\nThe oldest observatory in the world was excavated in north China's Shanxi province, and is believed to be 4,100 years old, predating the formerly oldest known observatory from South America.\n\nWhat is well known is that the Arab world gave us our current number system, and the concept of zero.
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It is estimated to be 1300 years old. Please read on;\n\nhttp://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/earle/pi/pin/hel.htm