Scientists have confirmed that one of Earth's most remarkable living beings—a massive forest of quaking aspen trees in Utah known as Pando—is between 16,000 and 80,000 years old, solidifying its place ...

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FISHLAKE NATIONAL FOREST, Utah — The world’s densest living organism is right here in Utah. It’s a clone of Aspen trees called Pando, which are connected through a single root system weighing a total ...

An aspen forest in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest is one of the largest and oldest single organisms on the planet. It may be 80,000 years old. It’s called “The Trembling Giant,” or Pando, which is ...

A forest of quaking aspen trees in Utah, called Pando, has been confirmed to be incredibly old. It is estimated to be between 16,000 and 80,000 years old. This makes Pando one of the oldest living ...

PANDO, Utah (WKRC) - The largest living thing in the world weighs 6,000 metric tons and covers over 100 acres. Recently researchers discovered what the organism sounds like. Pando is the Latin word ...

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, a quaking aspen and one of the world's oldest and largest organisms. Photo: J Zapell / Wikimedia Commons A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single organism, ...

What looks like 47,000 separate trees spread out over 106 acres in Utah are actually all offshoots from a single, massive Aspen tree root. It’s known as Pando and it is believed to be the largest ...

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This may look like your typical forest. But there’s a lot more here than meets the eye. That’s because these woods are actually one single giant organism. At about 80,000 years old, it’s one of the ...