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

The clonal colony of quaking aspens is the world's largest and heaviest tree, as well as one of the oldest organisms on Earth Spreading over 106 acres and possessing 47,000 branches, Pando is the ...

Listen to Pando's soothing soundscape Aspen trees are notable for any number of traits, but perhaps none more so than their quivering leaves. Rice was particularly interested in the sound of ...

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 ...

To the untrained eye, Pando resembles a forest made up of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) trees. However, it's actually a single clone comprising approximately 40,000 genetically identical ...

Thousands of aspen trees in the upper elevations of Fishlake National Forest in Utah on October 10, 2023. The forest is home to the Pando Aspen Clone Grove, one of the world's largest single ...

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 ...

The audio was captured using a hydrophone, which was placed under “Pando,” a lone male quaking aspen that has gradually grown to include 6,000 metric tons of living material.

It’s a clone of Aspen trees called Pando, which are connected through a single root system weighing a total of 13 million pounds. Researchers say it’s in danger.

In a sense, Pando "redefines trees," says Lance Oditt, who directs the nonprofit Friends of Pando. What started as one seed now spans 80 football fields and weighs some 6,000 tons.