Sunday, August 21, 2016

It was found the oldest tree in Europe – Mail.Ru

Adonis – Bosnian pine, recently it has been discovered by an international team of scientists in the mountains Pindus near the border with Albania. Beside him live a few peers, whose age is also more than a thousand years, but our hero – the most senior of them, reports CNN

Age was established by counting annual rings -. To do this, scientists seized a piece of wood <. / p>

This pine has witnessed the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire and then saw the birth and death of the Ottoman Empire. When the tree was a thin green shoots, in Russia, for example, the rules of Prince Igor Rurik Svyatoslav prince’s father.

At this Adonis is not the oldest tree in the world . In California still grows Pinus aristata intermountain named Methuselah, whose age is estimated at 4846 years.

Recently, it was found out that the oldest on Earth vertebrate is a Greenland shark, age one individuals of this species, scientists estimated at 500 years.

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