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A tree older than the pyramids of Egypt
Pando, the clonal colony that has emerged from a single tree of the species Populus tremuloides in Fish Lake, Utah, USA. J ZAPELL / USDA In 1964, a geologist named Donald Currey discovered the oldest tree on Earth after killing him . Currey was at Peak Wheeler (Nevada) to develop a glacial timeline of the area and, for that, he dedicated himself to count the rings of Pinus longaeva , the long-lived pine. In his study he used a kind of perforator to draw samples from the logs, but in one of them - labeled WPN-114, nicknamed Prometheus - he got stuck. Currey advised the Forest Service, who cut down the titanic tree to retrieve the device. When the scientist began counting the rings he realized the mistake he had made. In an article for the magazine Ecology wrote: "It can tentatively be concluded that WPN-114 began to grow about 4,900 years ago." Currey, without knowing it, had killed a tree of 4,844 years....