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A 5,000-year-old tree was cut down by accident
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In 1964, a researcher trying to date a bristlecone pine got his drill stuck and decided the logical solution was to just cut the whole thing down. He subsequently discovered he had just murdered Prometheus, an organism nearly five millennia old. It remains a stunning testament to how quickly human curiosity can accidentally erase thousands of years of biological resilience.
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