Did you know the largest living organism on Earth is slowly being eaten? Meet "Pando," a massive 106-acre stand of quaking aspen clones in Utah's Wasatch Mountains.

What looks like a forest of individual trees is actually 47,000 genetically identical stems, all connected by a single root system. Weighing in at around 6,000 metric tons, Pando is the heaviest living organism on the planet and has supported an entire ecosystem for thousands of years. Unfortunately, this living giant is now under threat.

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https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-largest-organism-is-slowly-being-eaten-scientist-says

Ihr kanntet den natürlich bereits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)

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