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SpaceSilicon Canalsabout 2 hours ago
Methuselah pine is 4,855 years oldA Great Basin bristlecone pine nicknamed Methuselah in California's White Mountains has been alive for 4,855 years, germinating before the Great Pyramid was built. The tree grows in nutrient-starved dolomite soil that kills competitors. Its genome, sequenced by UC Davis and Johns Hopkins, is 24 billion base pairs with unusually long telomeres and dense disease-resistance genes.
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