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INYO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 28: A 4,853-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine tree known as Methuselah is growing high at Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California, United States on November 28, 2021. It is also recognized as the non-clonal tree with the greatest confirmed age in the world. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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