The Pando is a 106-acre colony of cloned aspen trees between Las Vegas, Nevada, and Salt Lake City, Utah, in the US-but it's ...

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The Greenland shark is the largest living fish in the world with an impressive ... lineage and they can live up to 100 years long. These animals are endemic to New Zealand, they live more than ...

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

African elephants are the largest land mammals on earth ... Currently the longest living animal in recorded history is an Ocean Quahog Clam from Iceland, with a recorded age of 507 years old.

The world's largest living organism is slowing being eaten ... the Pando faces a much smaller but very real threat: hungry animals. Paleoecologist Dr Richard Elton Walton wrote in The Conversation ...

A single organism. The mass of all the genetically identical trees weighs around 6,000 tons, which makes it, in terms of mass, the largest living thing on Earth. The Pando is protected by the US ...