news.yahoo.com— A large oak tree dug up last summer in a gravel pit in Indiana could be 6,000 years old or more and might have been entombed by a glacier during the last ice age, scientists say.
Feb 18, 2006View in Crawl 4
1. Curious, but did they consider if there were ancient microbes that could survive the thaw and thus resurrect a disease previously extinct? Great intro for an end-of-humankind type of movie.2. Why the animosity for no picture? People only read picture books these days? The photo will turn up, duh.
Speaking of Methuselah ... After the discovery of this group of extremely old bristlecones pines a student of the university of Utah, Don Currey, decided to determine their exact age. So he went there, and cut down the first tree he saw and started to count the rings. After careful checking and re-checking, he came to more than 4900.He had discovered the world's oldest living oragnism, and he had killed it.
The last Ice age ended 12-13000 years ago unless they are talking about isolated glaciers that remained after the end of the Ice age. Also the tree would have been uprooted and carried to it's current location when the glacier formed and left behind when it retreated. I think 6000 years is conservative, try 20-30,000 years. I hope they got some DNA samples.
Submit it to researchers such as anthropologists that use dendochronology (tree rings) to learn about climate patterns and how that effects humans. Also, there are many more better uses for this tree than furniture in other reasearch areas.Make furniture from new trees!
bariumFeb 19, 2006
Yggdrasil
craptacularFeb 19, 2006
1. Curious, but did they consider if there were ancient microbes that could survive the thaw and thus resurrect a disease previously extinct? Great intro for an end-of-humankind type of movie.2. Why the animosity for no picture? People only read picture books these days? The photo will turn up, duh.
mrphelpsFeb 19, 2006
Speaking of Methuselah ... After the discovery of this group of extremely old bristlecones pines a student of the university of Utah, Don Currey, decided to determine their exact age. So he went there, and cut down the first tree he saw and started to count the rings. After careful checking and re-checking, he came to more than 4900.He had discovered the world's oldest living oragnism, and he had killed it.
efisherFeb 24, 2006
The last Ice age ended 12-13000 years ago unless they are talking about isolated glaciers that remained after the end of the Ice age. Also the tree would have been uprooted and carried to it's current location when the glacier formed and left behind when it retreated. I think 6000 years is conservative, try 20-30,000 years. I hope they got some DNA samples.
thephilomathMar 4, 2006Submitter
And by some funny coincidence, many Americans are idiots!
thephilomathMar 4, 2006Submitter
Submit it to researchers such as anthropologists that use dendochronology (tree rings) to learn about climate patterns and how that effects humans. Also, there are many more better uses for this tree than furniture in other reasearch areas.Make furniture from new trees!
flyingMar 16, 2006
mmmm popsickals....