Earth's Oldest Living Trees

In a protected area high in the White Mountains in eastern California, 15 miles east of Bishop, you'll find the oldest living trees in the world. The gnarled beauties, called the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, are believed to be 1,000 to around 4,800 years old.

Can you imagine the amount of history they've been through? These trees were young and growing at the time stone axes were being used in Europe, the Great Pyramid of Cheops was being built, and cuneiform clay tablets were being used in northern Syria.