Pando is the Latin word for "I spread," and it is also the name of a single aspen tree in the Fishlake National Forest in Utah with over 47,000 stems all connected through a massive underground ...

A recent DNA analysis of hundreds of tree samples suggested Pando is between 16,000 and 80,000 years old, making it one of the oldest living organisms in the world — although that research ...

This spreading network of natural habitat formed through asexual reproduction revealed genetic data that proved it to be the oldest organism.

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.

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.

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 a trip to south central Utah and into ...

One very big tree Pando — whose name means ‘I spread’ in Latin — consists of some 47,000 stems that cover an area of 42.6 hectares in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest.

Pando Grove in fall. Paul C. Rogers Sweeping across 107 acres of Utah’s Fishlake National Forest is one of the world’s largest organisms: a forest of some 47,000 genetically identical quaking ...

Pando is an incredibly special organism, but you’d never know it by looking. The tens of thousands of tree clones that make up Pando are all linked by their roots, and it has persisted for an ...