The 3 Reasons This Tree Has Lived 5000 Years

Keep exploring at Get started for free, and hurry – the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription. Methuselah’s environment lacks nutrients, water, and oxygen. In other words, it’s the perfect place to grow very very old. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Great basin bristlecone pine tree: a species of pine tree that includes many of the longest-lived individual trees on Earth. - Bark beetles: the common name for a subfamily of beetles that has destroyed millions of acres of forest across the Western United States. - Terpenes: waxy chemicals that increase wood density in certain pine trees. - Bark morphology: a trait of certain bristlecones in which strips of exposed wood extend up and down the tree, allowing them to pass nutrients even when other parts of the trunk have died. - Dolomite: a type of rock high in magnesium and calcium that turns into extremely alkaline soils. - Extremophile: an organism that is tolerant to environmental extremes. SUPPORT MINUTEEARTH ************************** If you like what we do, you can help us!: - Become our patron: - Share this video with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) CREDITS ********* David Goldenberg | Script Writer, Narrator and Director Lizah van der Aart | Illustration, Video Editing and Animation Nathaniel Schroeder | Music MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC OUR STAFF ************ Lizah van der Aart • Sarah Berman • Cameron Duke Arcadi Garcia i Rius • David Goldenberg • Melissa Hayes Alex Reich • Henry Reich • Peter Reich Ever Salazar • Leonardo Souza • Kate Yoshida OUR LINKS ************ Merch | MinuteEarth Explains Book | Youtube | TikTok | @minuteearth Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | Website | Apple Podcasts| REFERENCES ************** Bentz, Barbara (2022). Personal Communication. Research entomologist, US Forest Service. Millar, Connie (2022). Personal Communication. Scientist emirata, US Forest Service. Ababneh, L. (2006). Analysis of radial growth patterns of strip-bark and whole-bark bristlecone pine trees in the White Mountains of California: Implications in paleoclimatology and archaeology of the Great Basin. Ross, A. (2020). The Past and Future of the Earth’s Oldest Trees. The New Yorker. Karlamangla, S. (2022). In California, Where Trees are King, One Hardy Pine has Survived for 4800 years. New York Times. ​​ Bentz, B.J., Hood, S.M., Hansen, E.M., Vandygriff, J.C. and Mock, K.E. (2017), Defense traits in the long-lived Great Basin bristlecone pine and resistance to the native herbivore mountain pine beetle. New Phytol, 213: 611-624. Waldo S. Glock (1970). Bristlecone Pine in the White Mountains of California: Growth and Ring-Width Characteristics, Arctic and Alpine Research,2:3, 227-229. Pennisi, E. (2016). Greenland Shark may live 400 years, smashing Longevity Record. Science.