Based on its estimated age, it was already a sapling when Columbus set sail for the new world....
I thought scientists had determined that there were creosote bushes and aspen colonies that were older than this.
Can’t be true, the earth isn’t that old.
Helen Thomas planted it as a seedling in her youth
I no longer believe what researchers 'believe'. Either they prove it or shut up.
Based on its estimated age, it was already a sapling when Columbus set sail for the new world....
Written by a botanical illiterate.
The tree CAN produce its own “seeds”, and perhaps propagate from spreading roots. Go figure; a solitary tree produced more of its own species/offspring which may or may not be genetically identical to the ‘parent’.
The author clearly never passed basic botany and would likely believe that deciduous dicotyledons are a dinosaur species.
I have an axe that goes all the way back to Henry VIII. Of course it’s had ten new heads and twelve new handles since.
Boy have you messed up, the world is only 6,000 year old crowd will whip you.
The oak is made up of a community of cloned bushes and scientists believe it has managed to survive the extreme effects of climate change by regenerating.
You mean these scientists admit there was climate change before Obama discovered it?
Human race is hundreds of thousands of years old; survives by procreating "future generations".
Doesn’t a small amount of research count for anything?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
An aspen grove that is possibly 1 million years old.
Does that mean it's a Time Lord tree? :-)
