On the slope of a Utah mountain, a 106-acre colony of cloned aspen trees is under threat from wildlife and climate change.
While it may be defined as a single organism, Pando is anything but one—sustaining an entire world under its canopy. Here’s ...
Thimmamma Marrimanu is a banyan tree that has survived multiple cyclones and persevered to witness half a millennium of human ...
In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that ...
Have you ever wondered what the largest living organism on Earth is? Well, you might be surprised to learn that it's not a giant blue whale or a sequoia tree; it's a fungus! More specifically ...
It also may be, Jokura’s paper suggests, that ctenophores lack the protective allorecognition mechanism that allows one organism to tell the difference between its own cells and tissues and ...
Earth's largest and oldest organism, the Pando aspen tree in Fishlake National Forest in Utah, is being eaten alive by ...