Worlds Oldest Living Tree

**rameshxavier** · 11-20-2008, 04:51 AM

Scientists have found a cluster of spruces high in the mountains of western Sweden which, at an age of 8,000 years, must be the world's oldest living trees.
Carbon dating of these Swedish trees carried out at a laboratory in Miami, Florida, showed the oldest of them first set root about 8,000 years ago, making them the world's oldest known living things.
Umea University Professor Leif Kullman said these trees were found during the course of Climate change studies, and have pretty much recorded every single climate change since they were 'born' at the end of the last Ice Age.
These Spruce trees having endured a stunted growth for a few thousand years, are now beginning to grow more rapidly, due to the rising temperatures.

The previous oldest known tree, is the Californian Bristlecone Pine, known as the "Methuselah Tree" that was born at least two thousand years before the birth of Christ.