For decades, bristlecone pines, which can survive for up to 5,000 years, were thought to be the planet’s oldest living things. Now a tree in Chile is posing a challenge. By Craig Welch.

From a tortoise in the South Atlantic to an olive tree on Crete still producing a crop, here’s where to see the oldest living things on Earth.

This 9,550-year-old Spruce tree is the oldest single tree in the world. Located on a mountain in Sweden, the tree's root system has stayed alive for so long because it can sprout a new trunk when ...

Scientists have unveiled a new "tree of life," demonstrating just how the world's 2.3 million species of animals plants, fungi and microbes are connected. The project, involving 11 institutions ...

A forest is really a community of plants and animals. Within this large community are smaller groups of living things that grow together. Even an individual tree often has an association of plants ...

Learn about dead, living and non-living things with these interactive learning resources for KS1 Science students aged 5-7 from BBC Bitesize. ... but they were once part of a living tree.

From a tortoise in the South Atlantic to an olive tree on Crete still producing a crop, here’s where to see the oldest living things on Earth.