A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single organism, having all descended from a single seedling. But that’s not all: According to a team of researchers, the ...

Pando consists of 40,000, or so, trees that are genetically identical.VW Pics / Contributor / Getty Images Pando is the largest organism on Earth, consisting of about 40,000 genetically identical ...

The largest single organism in the world could soon fracture into smaller pieces. According to research published in the journal Conservation Science and Practice, this enormous forest organism, known ...

Age might well be just a number, but for a plant in Utah known affectionately as Pando, it could be a digit that leaves all other living things in the dust. Sequencing hundreds of samples of material ...

Behold the Pando aspen clone, a sprawling carpet of vibrant green-yellow quaking aspens occupying more than 100 acres outside the Fishlake National Forest in Utah. The “Trembling Giant,” as it is ...

On 106 acres in Fishlake National Forest in Richfield, Utah, a 13-million-pound giant has been looming for thousands of years. But few people have ever heard of him. This is “the Trembling Giant,” or ...

Pando in the fall. Photo by John Zapell/USDA Forest Service, Fishlake National Forest Stretching across more than 100 acres of land in the Fishlake National Forest in Utah is what is considered one of ...

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The Pando aspen clone in south-central Utah is widely considered to be the world's largest single organism, weighing an estimated 13 million pounds and covering some 106 acres (43 hectares) of the ...

Pando, a colony of trees in Utah considered the largest organism on Earth, is shrinking partly because of failed attempts by humans to keep it preserved, a new study suggests. The Pando, found in ...

On 106 acres in Fishlake National Forest in Richfield, Utah, a 13-million-pound giant has been looming for thousands of years. But few people have ever heard of him. On 106 acres in Fishlake National ...

Pando is the largest organism on Earth, consisting of about 40,000 genetically identical trees. Sound designer Jeff Rice recorded what this organism's vast root system sounds like in a rainstorm. The ...