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The oldest Tree in the world was killed by one man trying to figure out how old it was

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The oldest Tree in the world was killed by one man trying to figure out how old it was

In 1964, Donal Rusk Currey killed the oldest tree ever. To this day, there has still never been an older tree discovered. The tree was a Great Basin bristlecone pine, and Currey didn’t meant to kill it. It was an accident, and one he didn’t really understand the ramifications of until he started counting rings.


Radiolab told Don Currey’s story in their Oops Episode:




Basically, Currey got his tree corer stuck in the tree. So stuck that it wouldn’t come out.  An unwitting park ranger helped him by cutting the tree down, to remove the instrument, and later Currey began to count the rings. Eventually, he realized that the tree he had just felled was almost 5,000 years old – the oldest tree ever recorded.



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