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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The Pando tree colony in Utah's Fishlake National Forest — considered the largest organism on Earth — is at risk of disappearing.
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 ...
All it takes is one gust of wind to wake up Pando. As the sleeping giant stirred to life, I stopped in my tracks, barely a quarter mile into my summer afternoon hike, watching as its leaf-speckled ...
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 ...
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 ...