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 ...

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 an ancient quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) with 47,000 genetically identical stems, or tree trunks, connected to a vast underground root system. Each stem is a clone of the one next ...

If you journey to Fishlake National Forest in Utah, you'll be surrounded by a high-elevation behemoth. It's one of the largest life forms on the planet: a quaking aspen so colossal it has a name — ...

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 ...