The Appalachian mountain range is older than people, land animals, and even trees.
Its oldest rocks were formed between about 1.1 billion and 541 million years ago. By comparison, trees are around 350 million years old, land animals are about 500 million years old, and humans (or at least our ape-like ancestors who first began to walk on two legs) arrived about 6 million years ago.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - - Mark Twain
not misleading at all, but you missunderstood it apparantly.