the Pando cannot be cut down as its protected by the US National Forest Service, but it could still go extinct due to deer and diseases. The youngest trees are being killed as overgrazing animals ...

Weighing an estimated 6,000 tons—roughly the same as 40 blue whales—and spanning an area larger than 80 football fields, Pando is not just a tree but ... a wide array of species, including ...

Yet clonal organisms like Pando – a name that translates into 'I spread' – play by different rules. Its genome of chromosome triplets doesn't mix easily with others within its species ...