The world's largest and oldest organism may have been growing for 80,000 years

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This is Pando, "the Trembling Giant," an astonishing clonal colony of quaking aspen trees located in Utah's Fishlake National Forest. Spanning about 106 acres and consisting of over 47,000 genetically identical trees, Pando is actually a single living organism connected by an extensive, ancient root system. That means ev…