Story highlights Millennium-old Bosnian pine discovered by a group of scientists

The pine was 750 years old when Newton formulated his laws of motion

(CNN) Europe's oldest living inhabitant goes by the name of Adonis, lives in the highlands of northern Greece and is over 1,075 years old.

No, the last part isn't a typo -- Adonis is a tree.

The millennium-old Bosnian pine was discovered by a group of scientists from Stockholm University, the University of Mainz and the University of Arizona, who announced their findings Friday.

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It is one of more than a dozen trees over 1,000 years old located in a forest high in the Pindos mountains near to the Greek border with Albania.

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