Some organisms can outlive humans by hundreds or even thousands of years, and the contender for Earth's oldest living thing ...

In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that ...

Earth's largest and oldest organism, the Pando aspen tree in Fishlake National Forest in Utah, is being eaten alive by ...

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 ...

In early spring, an aspen clone will produce small ... 2008). Whatever its age, Pando certainly represents one of the most remarkable individuals among all living organisms.

Pando is a quaking aspen tree found in Utah's Fishlake National ... The organism's ingenious root system produces new clones between stems, which has helped keep the plant alive for millennia ...

Pando has survived this way for a long time, but scientists are worried it may not be able to clone itself quickly enough to stay alive in the future. They've noticed that most of the aspen ...