Adonis – Bosnian pine, recently it has been discovered by an international team of scientists in the mountains Pindus near the border with Albania. Beside him live a few peers, whose age is also more than a thousand years, but our hero – the most senior of them, reports CNN
Age was established by counting annual rings -. To do this, scientists seized a piece of wood <. / p>
This pine has witnessed the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire and then saw the birth and death of the Ottoman Empire. When the tree was a thin green shoots, in Russia, for example, the rules of Prince Igor Rurik Svyatoslav prince’s
At this Adonis is not the oldest tree in the world . In California
Recently, it was found out that the oldest on Earth vertebrate is a Greenland shark, age one individuals of this species, scientists estimated at 500 years.
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