We can now hear one of the largest and most ancient living organisms on Earth whisper with the tremble of a million leaves echoing through its roots. The forest, made up of a single tree known as Pando ("I spread" in Latin), has 47,000 stems (all with the same DNA) sprouting from a shared root system across 100 acres (40 hectares) in Utah. Here, this lone male quaking aspen ( Populus tremuloides ) gradually grew into a massive 6,000 metric tons of life, making it the largest living organism in

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