While it is not one of the tallest, Pando is the world's largest tree and one of the oldest living organisms, which is one of the reasons it is so fascinating and worth seeing in person. The clonal ...

Every tree in Pando is genetically identical, sharing DNA from a root system that has been growing and regenerating for tens of thousands of years beneath the forest floor. Named after the Latin ...

A recent DNA analysis of hundreds of tree samples suggested Pando is between 16,000 and 80,000 ... was 85 years old," Paul Rogers, an adjunct associate professor of ecology at Utah State ...