The world's oldest known living tree is a conifer* in Sweden whose roots date back over 9,500 years to the end of the last Ice Age. Read the story here.
image via National Geographic
*Conifer: any of numerous, chiefly evergreen trees or shrubs of the class Coniferinae, including the pine, fir, spruce, and other cone-bearing trees and shrubs, and also the yews and their allies that bear drupelike seeds.
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