In a forest in southern Chile, a giant tree has survived for thousands of years and is in the process of being recognized as the oldest in the world.
Known as the"Great Grandfather," the trunk of this tree measuring four meters in diameter and 28 meters tall is also believed to contain scientific information that could shed light on how the planet has adapted to climatic changes., a 4,850-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine found in California in the United States, as the oldest tree on the planet.
In recent years, tourists have walked an hour through the forest to the spot to be photographed beside the new"oldest tree in the world." For centuries its thick trunk has been chopped down to build houses and ships, and it was heavily logged during the 19th and 20th centuries.Park warden Anibal Henriquez discovered the tree while patrolling the forest in 1972. He died of a heart attack 16 years later while patrolling the same forest on horseback.
They estimated that their sample was 2,400 years old and used a predictive model to calculate the full age of the tree.He hopes to soon publish the results.
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