• Reading Levels 3 - 5
Science | Geography

Is this the oldest living thing?

Deep in the forests of Patagonia, environmentalists have made an extraordinary discovery: a single cypress tree, perhaps more than 5,000 years old. In this video, Al Jazeera English investigates what "great grandfather's" ancient core can tell us about the past, and what it could say about the future.

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