Earth Is Weird

Meet the 6-Million-Kilogram Immortal: The Giant Living Forest That’s Actually One Tree

Pando appears to be a forest of 47,000 aspen trees, but it’s actually a single 6-million-kilogram organism connected by one massive root system. This ancient clone has been growing for up to 80,000 years, making it both the heaviest and possibly oldest living thing on Earth.

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