A tree older than the pyramids

0:00 One of the oldest living things on Earth

0:02 grows in the mountains of California.

0:04 It is a bristlecone pine nicknamed

0:06 Methuselah,

0:07 nearly five thousand years old.

0:09 It sprouted before the Egyptian pyramids were

0:11 built.

0:12 Its exact location is kept secret to protect

0:15 it.