About 5,000 years ago, the ancient city Troy was founded, Stonehenge was under construction, and in the rugged Sierra Nevada mountain range, groves of bristlecone pine seedlings began to take root. Many of these pines are still alive today, making them the world’s oldest known living non-clonal life forms. Raphael Knevels, a PhD student from the Friedrich-Schiller-University’s Department of Geogra ...[Read More]
Imaggeo on Mondays: Bristlecone pines, some of Earth’s oldest living life forms
A thousands of years Old Beauty. Credit: Raphael Knevels (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)