Scientists in Chile say they’ve discovered what could be the oldest living thing on earth.
The cypress tree in Patagonia, nicknamed “great-grandfather”, is estimated to be more than 5,000 years old.
Al Jazeera’s Lucia Newman reports from the Los Lagos region in Chile.
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Very nice, interesting and wonderful video, from your biggest South African fan
good they are protecting it
Campers will be intruding into that forest to find that tree. They will be carving their names to the trunk as a sort of an “accomplishment”. The researchers should have kept this tree as a secret if they want to keep it at its present state.
Lol no way it is 5500 years old, I will wait on a peer reviewed article to believe it (which I just looked for and couldnt find)
i thaught arabs.
Fake news just like the other scientist said
Oh it’s not really about the tree… it’s about telling us to eat bugs to save the planet, got it.
😂😂 yeh I won’t be doing that at all regardless
Can’t wait to see you hunting for your own food in the forest 🙂
The earth is only 2022 years old
🤦♂️
Haha…yes the big bang just occurred 2,022 years ago.
Even Christians know it’s older than that.
@Chaotix Fox we can only hope. 🤣
GHAHAHAAHA
Don’t tell trump where it is.
Jeremiah 10:10- But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God …
1 Thessalonians 1:9- . . . turned to God from idols to serve a living and true God,
Zephaniah 1:15- A day of wrath is that day, A day of trouble and distress, A day of destruction and desolation, A day of darkness and gloom, A day of clouds and thick darkness,
Jeremiah 6:19- “Hear, O earth: behold, I am bringing disaster on this people, . . . Because they have not listened to My words, And as for My law, they have rejected it also.
Jeremiah 2:28- “But where are your gods Which you made for yourself? Let them arise, if they can save you In the time of your trouble; . . .
Thats amazing wonderful discovery…5500 years old tree is alive unbelievable….
They shouldn’t have published its location. Now, a “forest fire” will break out soon in that forest. Arsonists love to spoil the fun.
Depending of the opiate taken…some claim it recites Koran .. others dispute.
And now some A hole will cut it down to see how old it is.
I’d visit Chile Just for the tree
They say tourism puts the trees at risk 🙁
Please DONT.
Legitimate ecological tourism is often beneficial for the environment, find a guide to follow
I have seen very old trees
What about fungi?
*it’s the tree 🌲 of Allah 😍😍*
Yes everything is for Allah
You too are for Allah he is our creator
Hehehe!
When I was little, we spent a lot of time on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains here in Alberta, Canada.
I used to avoid walking on the pine trees roots as I decided that they were the trees feet and that I, personally, wouldn’t want someone coming into my home to step on my feet lol
To this day, I STILL walk around these big ol’ exposed roots within the forest.
Funny how some things can stick with ya when ya get older.
I would love to meet old g’ma in Chile.
Imagine the stories he could tell if ya just shut up long enough to listen.
W.
Help
Hello
That would be an excellent tattoo! A small one for the memory!
Please use Ecosia they are a search engine that plants trees
True one. Top
Will do thanks
Gracias
Yes I’m using it
The Tree may be reaching the end of its life. Nothing we know of lives forever. The oldest are generally closer to end of Life than the young. Sadly, at some point, even old Trees Die
Are they talking about JOE BIDEN??. He is pretty old
Big foot behind them at 2:41 🤨🤥😪
Amazing.
I thought that way too age a tree was debunked
Do they not know about jellyfish?
the burnt stump is a weak example
World’s oldest tree is in Sweden though.
Wow! I’d love to visit this park.
I was in Patagonia 10 years ago. With a cruise ship. Didn’t see much of the nature.
Quick better cut it down to plant soy 🙄
I thought some of the bristlecones ran to 7000 odd years.
nah oldest living creature likely my mother in law
I have a young Fitzroya growing in some woods near my childhood home.
What was a beautiful old tree, is now gonna get hunted down by instagram bimbos and jerks, looking to sit on it, lean on it, fondle it…whatever, just to say they got a selfie with the oldest tree ever. Guys of a destructive mentality will go there with their friggin cans of spray paint and tag it. People are too arrogant, conceited, vain, selfish, destructive and greedy now, to the point of destroying this planet’s beautiful things, just to have a GD picture. If there really was a deity, this world wouldn’t have gotten this bad. smh — Too many amazing landmarks, beaches, little villages and animals have been destroyed, all at the hands of the almighty NEED to have selfie people. 😠
Im a Historian and this is trully noted🤗
Wait, what?? So, what you are trying to tell us, is that burnt ash on trees, means fire?? Who would have ever thunk it
And yet, y’all are trampling all over them, good job, what people won’t sacrifice for a little TV time
Taking samples seems good way to kill the tree
How can we live without knowing the exact years though??
*cypress
That tree is older than Jebus and Dino from the Flintstones.
There is a lot to explore in this earth
param shanti
Interesting news
The oldest Tree is on Mars..
Trust me Bro..
awesome
Incredible tree! Bristlecone pines can live for over 5000 years and they do have ring counts from a stump of a tree that was cut to see how old it was. Can you believe some cut it down!
It is theorized that if the climatic conditions stay withing certain parameters long enough, and many other factors to do with fire and erosion work out right, that giant/Sierra sequoia/redwoods (Sequoiadendron giganteum) can potentially live to be beyond 6000 years.
They have now discovered one even older tree than the now second oldest tree they cut down because the drill broke.
It totally agree that protecting the small scraps of ancient forest that remain, compared to historic coverage, around the world is cruical.
You don’t do that by giving away the location of rare trees.
Vandalism 😄
If he includes more arbitrary references to “climate change” he could get some funds to have a bigger tool made
Please, just keep the location of this tree secret, and even keep the conservatory closed too to the public. I think by now we have established there are enough greedy machete-wielding madmen roaming about who think nothing of hacking ancient trees up all in the name of profit.
Even if it isn’t the very oldest tree it deserves to be protected and kept safe from humans who don’t see its wonder and majesty and who would rather hack it down to make a piece of furniture.
The oldest tree was Larry King but he has since passed on
Dendrochronology
You can’t claim it’s the oldest living tree without cutting into it. It’s impossible.
When vegans say trees and vegitables are not important then animals, but it lived 5000yrs, how can you disaregards its importance…
Nope they didn’t say that. Its your own make up. What’s your agenda?
Put a fence around it and keep the exact location secret. This was done with the Wollomi pines in NSW, Australia, and did protect them from humans.
This is why Earth is sterilizing itself of those who don’t respect her. Nothing is safe on Earth so long as Xians don’t know their place.
Joe Manchin says that tree has got to go
Scientists disagree with other scientists…. liar
Sorry, there’s one in Austrailia 40k+ yrs old.
I’m sure there are older trees around the world…this is a assumption
I thought there was a huge fungus in around Oregan that spans a couple of states that was like 10000 years old.??
Oldest living thing on earth is earth.
The Lady with the hand covers doesn’t realize that those rings on the outside expand due to moisture and oxygen over millenia lol scientists are so silly sometimes. They even think the bones they find in Siberia are those of native americans when really those bones are from a time of a supercontinent and it’s the land that traveled… not the people 😆 us native americans come from right here in North America. We lived in tunnels during the ice age with the ones you call “aliens” and they hate that word. Tell area 51 to cut the BS.
“From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 4:17)
On opiate !
“If you can’t change history destroy the record.”
Unreal…trees..live…a..lot..longer..than..we..do…..that..great…they..clean..the..the..air..that. we..need..
can’t we just carbon date it?
isn’t that more accurate?
Nice
Chile with a wonderful land scape
A better world is coming! 😀😀In Jehovah God’s new world ruled by Christ Jesus faithful one’s will be able to live forever with the prospect of never dying! John 17:3 Rev 21:3,4
Fun fact: the scientist Barichivich (Baričivić) is clearly of Croatian ancestry. Many Croats immigrated to Chile and Argentina during 19th and 20th century, especially to Patagonia.
It’s 51% white/European. A lot of nazis fled to Chile and Argentina specifically
The majority after 1945🤔
I live in NW Oregon and there are some select area’s here that have amazing patches of Old Growth Forest and some have some of the most amazing ancient trees that are just beyond massive compared to anything else around. Covered in moss, it’s like they support an entire ecosystem on them. A micro ecosystem but the width of some of these I would love to learn the age of them to find out which one is oldest out of all the areas I hike in. It would be cool to learn. I bet Oregon state University would be totally open to that study. I live right next to it but not sure how to ask about something like that?
Don’t be shy:)
Contact the University & ask. Or the Forestry service.
Europeans: We’re going 2 move into Chile
Europeans: And torture the Indigenous.
Europeans: And take an eye for protesting.
Europeans: And stage a military coup to get the Indigenous removed.
Europeans: Then place someone there that hates Indigenous.
They don’t respect the Natives or Nature.
It’s hilarious if they sincerely believe they do
Oldest living wood … dementia Biden !
Depending of the opiate taken some claim it recites Koran … and other strongly dispute.
Go Guyana check d trees there
Scientist: “hey this tree is the oldest living thing ever”.
Other scientist: “Let’s poke a hole in it!”.
Chile never seems to get the respect it deserves for preserving its forests – temperate rainforests, no less, which tend to be felled quite enthusiastically. Some day I’d love to visit the Valdivian temperate rainforests, such a strange and wonderful landscape of ancient species, very old trees, and odd plants. Here in the Pacific Northwest, they cut down almost all the giant Douglas firs, including the largest tree ever reliably measured (the Nooksack Giant). They’re still felling 1000+ year old cedars on Vancouver Island…
and with the thing called thing will never happen
Hope they don’t turn this tree and the park into a tourist attraction
technology will help humans to restore the earth from it’s former glory.. using renewable green energy..
The Earth itself is the oldest living entity , but most don’t see it that way . She was beautiful , She was strong and She was bountiful . But now man has poisoned her , scarred her and has assaulted her in many many ways . Now our beautiful Utopian cell is sickened and weakened by the MANCER ( Man Cancer ) that is devouring her . She might survive as a living entity but only when the MANCER has been neutralized .
These idiots are gonna drill a hole in the tree – and kill it.
I don’t believe anything these people say you drill to the core and tell how old something is that is straight up BS I recall when you said count the tree rings. SCIENCE IS TRASH
It isn’t. It is the “oldest living thing” we know about, that’s all.
😳
nah bro, you should see the misery my manager puts me through. Now THAT s*it is getting too old, far too older than this.
Save mother earth before it too late
It’s crazy to think that this tree was once just a small sapling.