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Prometheus, the 5,000-year-old tree cut down by a scientist by mistake: “I knew it was quite old”

Back in 1964, a scientific decision ended up destroying one of the oldest living organisms ever discovered. Prometheus, a Great Basin bristlecone pine growing high on the slopes of Wheeler Peak in ...
El Adelantado de Segovia

Farewell to the oldest tree ever known—a scientific error in Nevada wiped out 5,000 years of living history

When human error erases 5,000 years of history, we become even more aware that humankind is not perfect. The incident ...
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Prometheus, the world’s oldest tree, was mistakenly cut down by a scientist after 5,000 years: “I knew it was quite old”

Back in 1964, a scientific decision ended up destroying one of the oldest living organisms ever discovered. Prometheus, a Great Basin bristlecone pine growing high on the slopes of Wheeler Peak in ...
Los Angeles Times

Follow-up: More tales of the Prometheus tree and how it died

On Friday, I had a front-page article on the story of Prometheus, the 5,000-year-old bristlecone that was chopped down in 1964 in the name of science — and whose memory was resurrected by Los Angeles ...
Reno Gazette-Journal

Nevada was home to oldest living thing on earth. What happened to Prometheus?

In 1964, graduate student Donald Rusk Currey asked for permission to cut down a tree growing on Wheeler Peak in Nevada's Great Basin National Park. Though there are different accounts on the ...
Los Angeles Times

Great Read: The ghost of Prometheus: a long-gone tree and the artist who resurrected its memory

Somewhere in the high desert of eastern Nevada, a few turns off Route 50 — “the loneliest road in America” — a station wagon sat parked by the side of the highway. Before it lounged a young couple on ...