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 ...

Aerial view of Pando’s land mass, outlined in green. Credit: Lance Oditt, friendsofpando.org/GIS map by Paul Rogers and Daren McAvoy For this story, we’re taking ...

Pando is a giant aspen clone in central Utah that has been regrowing parts of itself for up to 80,000 years — but new threats mean the plant is now in decline. When you purchase through links on our ...

Humans had a reputation for being on the younger side of history’s children, with much room for evolution and development. A beautiful section of the natural environment revealed itself to be the ...

Researchers have recorded the sounds of the world's largest tree, a 13-million-pound (6 million kilograms) behemoth known as Pando that stretches across 106 acres (43 hectares) in southern Utah. The ...

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed clues about ...

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 ...

While it may be defined as a single organism, Pando is anything but one—sustaining an entire world under its canopy. Here’s how it works. When you think of the world’s largest organism, you might ...

Utah is home to one of the world’s largest organisms. It takes up about 106 acres and likely weighs more than 13 million pounds. But you could drive right past it and not know it was there. Because ...

A tree is sometimes more than just a tree. Quaking aspens, North America’s most widely distributed tree, often reproduce through cloning. What appear as individual trees are instead collections of ...