Estimated to be over 4,800 years old, Methuselah is widely accepted as the world’s oldest known non-clonal tree—that is, a single living organism that hasn’t regrown from another or cloned itself.

making a four-mile loop through the Methuselah Grove, where the dendrochronologist Edmund Schulman established the age of several extremely old trees back in the 1950s. The oldest known is the ...

Scientists at the California Academy of Sciences say that the Australian lungfish, Methuselah, may even be older than 100 years old Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been ...

In the Bible, Methuselah was Noah’s grandfather and was said to have lived to be 969 years old. Methuselah the fish is not quite that ancient, but biologists at the California Academy of ...

In case you're wondering, the tree shown in the NOVA program is not the Methuselah Tree. To protect this venerable old tree, the U.S. Forest Service refuses to give its location or identity within ...