Assessing the age of a living tree is straightforward ... like Methuselah are more challenging to count, because the trunks are so distorted that new rings may form at right angles to ones formed ...

Growth increments in the shell of the bivalve Arctica islandica form annual rings, also known as growth lines — similar to those in trees — which scientists use to determine the clam's age.

The scientists collected core samples from 25 Scots pine trees and stem discs from 54 juniper shrubs, creating paper-thin ...

Scientists studying pine trees and juniper shrubs in northern Scandinavia are revealing the weather of the past by looking at tree rings — which can tell us far more than just the trees’ age. ‘Blue’ ...

"There are a lot of false tree rings, and if the trunk sample isn’t circular you have to follow at least three different radii to get a proper count." With the help of several researchers from Spain, ...

How could anyone determine the age of such an aged object so precisely, especially when there are absolutely no records to verify the date? Well, tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology, can be this ...