It's a scene right out of "The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss: All that's left is the trunk. A century-old Monterey Cypress tree in La Jolla's Ellen Browning Scripps Park — thought by many locals to be the ...
Scientists documenting the ages of bald cypress along the Black River in southeastern North Carolina have discovered an ancient tree whose annual growth rings show it to be at least 2,624 years old.