Academic Murders Oldest Unitary Organism

Bristlecone Pine, White Mountains, California. “Bristlecone pines are the oldest unitary organisms in the world, known to surpass 5,000 years in age,” says Sussman. “In the 1960’s a then-grad student cut down what would have been the oldest known tree in the world while retrieving a lost coring bit. A cross section of that tree was placed in a Nevada casino.”
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I am speechless.