A visit to the ancient bristlecone ... Click on the images below to take your own tour, complete with details about what you're seeing. In case you're wondering, the tree shown in the NOVA program ...

"There is something a little fantastic," wrote Edmund Schulman in the March 1958 National Geographic, "in the persistent ability of a 4,000-year-old tree ... tallest bristlecone pine is but ...

All around me stood ancient bristlecone ... using tree rings, knew bristlecones would be the perfect species for his project. He hiked several thousand feet up Wheeler Peak in what is now Great Basin ...

Now the oldest known tree is another bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California, named Methuselah. However, you can still find bristlecone pines in Nevada. Here's a look at the oldest ...

Adjacent to Methuselah, another unnamed bristlecone pine in the Inyo National Forest poses an intriguing mystery. Believed to potentially exceed Methuselah in age, this tree's core has eluded ...