Earth's largest and oldest organism, the Pando aspen tree in Fishlake National Forest in Utah, is being eaten alive by ...

Now known as Prometheus, the tree was found to be nearly 5,000 years old. That means Prometheus came into existence around the time humans were exiting the Stone Age and beginning to work with bronze.

Though the study is yet to be peer reviewed, its conclusions help confine speculations over how long this one clonal organism has stood in place, which have ranged wildly from several thousand to ...

When populations move on, these prints are left behind until they’re covered over. In the far, far older Burgess Shale event, some of the oldest organisms ever found were preserved intact because they ...

Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and for good reason. Pando is among the largest and oldest organisms on Earth. Its 47,000 stems cover more than 100 acres. Scientists have sequenced the genome ...

It may be un-tree-leaf-able, but trees are actually some of the oldest organisms on earth. Step aside giant tortoises and blue whales, the humble tree wins for longevity. Check out some of the ...

Ctenophores are one of, if not the, oldest animals on Earth — quite possibly ... protective allorecognition mechanism that allows one organism to tell the difference between its own cells ...

Some of the world's oldest organisms left behind fossilized shells that, when translated to a large sculpture, bring an artistic edge to evolution High above Cape Town, this craggy wildlife ...

Elderflora is a sweeping, exceptional tribute to the oldest living organisms on Earth. It’s also a reminder that, even though many trees have ways of healing over superficial wounds, ancient ...

On the slope of a Utah mountain, lives the world's oldest living organism. It has lived there for thousands of years, living in harmony with the natural world around it, but today it is being slowly ...