DNA Analysis of Pando Reveals it's The Largest and Oldest Organism on Earth

[@tessjuel]

Really interesting video but it has some factual errors: --- The Pando aspen is no longer regarded the largest organism on Earth. In the Malheur National Forest in Oregon there is a single specimen of the armillaria ostoyae fungus that is believed to cover 9.1 km2 of land and weigh a staggering 35,000 tons. That is more than 20 times the area and almost six times the weight of the Pando aspen. --- The quaking aspen has mixed polidity, that is some specimens are diploid, others triploid. The diploid ones are perfectly fertile and the triploid ones can also reproduce sexually although with difficulty. --- The Pando aspen is by far the biggest and oldest clonal tree we know of but the ability to grow multiple trunks from a single root isn't unique to the quaking aspen - it's actually quite common among trees.

[@djackson006]

I think he meant to say oldest. @7:49

[@TheMcEwens419]

You beat me to it! 😂

[@Deletirium]

The X-files did a great episode about something very similar...

[@kaarlimakela3413]

I was thinking of the big fungi, too. We have one here in Michigan.

[@oberonpanopticon]

“There’s a humongous fungus among us!”

[@chrislong3938]

I live in Colorado and 30+ years ago, I didn't know what to do with my backyard. So I planted an aspen tree in the middle of it and now have a small aspen grove for my dogs to run through and have shade whenever they need it! It's awesome actually!

[@MCsCreations]

Dude, I don't care if you like dogs, cats or whatever. Life wouldn't make sense without those little pests! LOL

[@WarrenLacefield]

Yes, indeed. They do make nice attractive backyard groves for shade and relaxation.

[@jakelynbrook]

Can’t wait for the opportunity to hug one!😮 11:27

[@Jrpyify]

You can do this with hedge apple trees as well, it's even weirder. The branches hang down and when they are in contact with the ground they can form roots and start a new tree. So over time it creates these thorny tunnels where you can't tell where one tree sops and another stops.

[@darkonc2]

The reason why there is not a strong correlation between physical distance and genetic distance is that -- with Pando being 18-60 thousand years old, and each sprout lasting only 100 years, that would mean about 180-600 generations of sprouts. If you were to trace linearly back from a current sprout to it's Nth grandparent, the path would look much more like a random walk within the grove than a liner travel away from a radiative spot. So, for example, a sprout may find itself right next to -- or even replacing -- it's great-grand-parent. Once an entity reaches a few hundred years old, the vast majority of new sprouts will be replacing fallen predecessors rather than breaking new ground.

[@pseudonayme7717]

Yeah and you can see the many generations of fallen clones in those overhead shots, laying around the feet of the new clones, slowly rotting away. I think this illustrates your point quite nicely👍

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

​@@pseudonayme7717Interestingly, when *_I_* saw those fallen trees, given the proximity (video wise) to Anton mentioning the protection, I assumed those had been intentional fell trees of different species, to leave only Pando. I say that because it VERY MUCH looked like a forest that had been selectively logged. Eexcept in this case it wasn't loggers being destructive (harvesting), but arborists being protective. Or at least it very much resembled how my dad's property looked after he had it selectively logged. (but this had far more trees remaining) My reasoning is, there's very little undergrowth of _any kind,_ compared to literally EVERY untouched forest I've ever been in where you fight to walk through it.

[@KirbyComicsVids]

exactly, was wondering why this wasn’t considered

[@robadamson1]

My family has had a cabin down at Fish Lake for 3 generations. You see the Pando grove as you drive into the lake area proper.

[@jonathanmilo]

I’m simply awestruck knowing Pando exists. Thank you!

[@Vernon-gn9wb]

He said he made a previous video about it I thought he was talking about that one fungal organism. I never heard about a whole Grove of trees being one like that

[@DG-iw3yw]

@Vernon-gn9wb Lots of plants "clone" themselves in this way, some species are more adapted for it than others,when the right genetic combination comes along a single organism can clone itself and spread as a colony for an extremely long time, some individuals may have been around for thousands of years, even certain individual grass, could have benn cloning itself via rhizomes for hundreds of years or more

[@Vernon-gn9wb]

@DG-iw3yw yeah the first thing I thought about was strawberries. Thanks for the paragraph

[@kathleenmccrory9883]

The 2nd largest aspen grove is the clone aspen grove at Kebler Pass in Colorado. Fascinating tree.

[@arrinyarlathotep6901]

Hehe.. as a kid I think I used dead branches from Pando for campfires. My Dad loved camping around Fish Lake. Aspen is easy firewood because the dead branches are very brittle, and the bark is quite papery.

[@TheFutureIsHere808]

Hi Anton I personally would love to see a video on time crystals. There have been some very interesting advances recently that I'd like to see covered. Well made video as usual :)

[@civildiscourse2000]

OK I admit I thought "OMG some woowoo new age thing, really?" But no, it's an actual thing and I agree, it's perfect Anton fuel.

[@MCsCreations]

​@@civildiscourse2000It's not that, but it could be... So, don't freaking give them ideas!

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

​@@MCsCreationsHeeey maaan! So like, if you make tea with this time crystal in your cup, it *stops aging!* However, if you sleep with it in your rectum, it will _REVERSE_ aging!! 😌 ✌️, ♥️, and 💎 man! [juuuust in case, this is *_purely satire!_* 😅]

[@kentchamberlain5720]

I'm the campground host at a Forest Service site in nearby Nevada. We also have quaking aspen, indeed the campground is one huge quaking aspen stand intermixed with cherry trees, serviceberry and currant bushes, and Oregon holly grape in the meadowy bits, and all kinds of other stuff I'm less intimately aware of up in the canyon trails. I knew they were the largest organisms on Earth, but even I had no idea how old.

[@Grunttamer]

They should have a festival there called “Pando-monium”

[@MCsCreations]

I guess it was a world event back in 2020...

[@Yezpahr]

A festival would ruin all nature around it for years afterwards, not to mention the likelihood of some smoker setting it on fire.

[@Grunttamer]

@@Yezpahr that’s a little dramatic

[@tommylakindasorta3068]

And the shuttle to take you there should be called the Pando Express.

[@Grunttamer]

@ geeze with branding like that it could be a year round tourist destination

[@jimcurtis9052]

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. ☺️⭐️👍

[@Jacobk-g7r]

7:21 that’s a good idea, so many mutations a little slipped through the cracks, not trying to change but trying to stay the same but changed by the outside. Forced to change by overwhelming differences of time.

[@iand5706]

I thought the largest organism, is the sea grass in Exmouth Western Australia. It’s huge, 180 square kilometres (70 square miles) huge. Anton can confirm? He did a story/video on the sea grass.

[@rgarlinyc]

Amazing, I never ceased to be amazed at new discoveries we make!

[@danielvermeer3363]

Have you heard of the sydney sea grass that is growing off the coast of western Australia?? It grows the same way, and has no natural predators as it is native to the east coast but somehow some found its way all the way across the country and has been growing nonstop ever since. It is suposedly bigger than pando, one plant with fields of clones

[@billable1861]

If I had to guess it was probably transferred by whale or by boat.

[@DG-iw3yw]

@billable1861 Id say boat. All it takes is a single bit of the stuff tangled in a propeller or something

[@u-mos8820]

Wait, I thought there was a massive mushroom colony (called the Humongous Fungus?) spanning 2,385 acres/estimated 35,000 tons (Pando weighs ~6600 tons). The fungus sounds more massive to me? Also what's with all the bots?

[@filipe5722]

Yeah, I was going to comment that. Panda is the most massive organism, but Humongous Fungus is way larger.

[@youretheChrist]

❤🎉

[@Deletirium]

They're on every major channel- it's not the creator's fault. Just insult and report as spam.

[@u-mos8820]

@@filipe5722 I read some more on it cause i was a little confused how it could weigh 5-6 times more and not have more mass. Feel stupid now though cause the fungus are not a single entity exactly, just clones of each other in incredible concentration. That does shine a new light on how unique this single branching tree is and how weird its' off shoots show genetic mutations, not to mention its' age.

[@DCDevTanelorn]

Didn’t Anton say this early in his video?

[@shutincharlie3461]

Happy thanksgiving wonderful person

[@ralphditchburn1456]

Great show as always

[@mamatuja]

This tree lived for 80000 years, and now somehow we need to build a wall around it.😂😂😂

[@DCDevTanelorn]

It’s because, just like in Yellowstone, the deer got out of control due to humans killing wolves. In Arizona, we also have to fence aspen stands because we eradicated the native elk, and the invasive elk browse aspens faster than they can regenerate. The invasive elk are here because of streams diverted to livestock ponds. We are the reason why barriers are needed. The Anthropocene is a mass extinction event.

[@miproduction6196]

@@DCDevTanelornYupp.! My grandpa was a biologist and was responsible for a couple different wolf transplants to reintroduce them back into the environment To help the deer and moose populations after they had been hunted to oblivion. One wasn’t so successful, as all 9 were shot within 3 weeks after being released (stigma about wolves being bad was way worse back then, ((n still lingers fs)), but they did have more farms/animals than nowadays to protect too. Not saying that’s what it was tho lol) And the other two, one at presque isle, another at isle royal in Lake Superior, were successful also, however it’s an ongoing process of observing the balance that needs to be happen every so many years. Fun fact: the place I work still has the very wolf cage he first reintroduced and acclimated the wolves to the environment in. Had no idea he had ever even done that until I started working there, and was told by another coworker. Talk about full circle.. I’ll still stumble upon researchers out in the woods a few times a year who, after being known, tell me that it was him who inspired them to become biologists. You truly never know how large of an impact you’ll leave after you’re gone. And that is a beautiful thing. Love and miss you, grandpa Duck ❤

[@gbizzotto]

where there's humans, species go extinct, so it might not be uncalled for after all.

[@neverlistentome]

BUILD THE WALL! 😂

[@miproduction6196]

@@neverlistentome BUILD A CEILING! I CANT BELEIVE NOBODIES THOUGHT OF THAT YET

[@172louis]

I just wonder if Anton is a real human sometimes, His vids are all so good and accurate. That it makes ya wonder if Anton is a real life super intelligent organisem in the name of Science. ✌️

[@DG-iw3yw]

Well, there were afew small inaccuracies

[@Lebatron1970]

When I was a kid, it was the Humungous Fungus. Located near my town. Still the best name of all these large organisms discovered since then.

[@WayneTheSeine]

Oh man, how I love to camp, hike and fish amongst the aspens. Aspen viewing is a multi-million or even billion, dollar industry. Driving the mountain ranges in October is breathtaking, awe inspiring. The sight can bring tears of joy to your eyes.

[@greenthumb8266]

Thanks wonderful person, excellent as usual!

[@jamesblossom-y1u]

Lots of aspen groves in the mountains where I grew up. They seem to survive fires.

[@donaldcarey114]

They may actually depend on fires removing competition (the roots survive).

[@jamesblossom-y1u]

@@donaldcarey114 Too right. Also Mycelium also covers square miles. Could they co-operate?

[@brianmcnamara5890]

Yes, after forest fires we get morels, then huckleberries, then fireweed then aspen suckers. The Conifers grow much more slowly and can't compete after a clear cut or fire.

[@LilLoopie]

Totally fascinating. I was wondering about whether there would be a fungus organism too and that was answered in the comments.

[@chadscott2401]

Hello Wonderful Episode! Thank you.

[@hal_aetus]

Sorry if I heard wrong, but I think you said that aspens cannot reproduce sexually. They can. Also, there are fences in Pando that prevent browsers from damaging new saplings.

[@DG-iw3yw]

Yeah, although perhaps the heavily clonal varieties are less sexually stable. For example there are afew individual members in some species that are sterile or do not produce flowers, but spread and divide instead. The "golden" epipremnum or pothos is a good example of this, can only flower if chemically induced in a lab...Perhaps they found pando to not be able to sexually reproduce for one reason or another, as varieties that vigorously clone themselves sometimes have those reproductive dysfunctions, wether it is because the imdividual has been around so long it has become sterile from genetic drift or other factors who knows

[@DixonCyderBusch]

The largest organism is in Oregon, (where I live) a fungus, specifically a species of Armillaria known as the "Humongous Fungus." (I thought you had already done a video on this?) This massive organism covers an area of over 3.5 square miles in the Malheur National Forest. While aspen trees can form large clonal colonies, they are not as extensive as the Humongous Fungus. The Humongous Fungus is measured by its underground network of mycelia, which covers a vast area. The Pando aspen colony, on the other hand, is measured by the number of trees it comprises. However, we can get a sense of their relative sizes: * Humongous Fungus: Covers about 2,385 acres (3.7 square miles). * Pando Aspen Colony: Covers about 106 acres. As you can see, the Humongous Fungus is significantly larger in terms of the area it covers. However, it's important to note that the Pando aspen colony is also a remarkable organism, representing a single genetic individual spread across many trees.

[@newjsdavid1]

Maybe in terms of total weight Pando is larger. I wouldn’t know.

[@davidgallegos5323]

Great video that was really good glad I stopped to watch thanks brother

[@desertsongsworship459]

Thank you, I live in USA and didn’t know about this 😊

[@Blancoemanuel]

cool, i am from Utah and went to see that area so many times! it is beautiful!

[@danielvermeer3363]

More botany, please.❤❤❤❤

[@richardjanzing8149]

This might be the oldest but it isn't even close to the biggest. There is a Coastal Rain Forest in Western Washington State, USA that is FAR bigger than 47 Hectares that has a massive single Mycelium that covers the entire forest floor to a depth of a few feet. If you cut a cube of ground out it has the same structure as a brain and the organism itself has more complexity that 10 million human brains together.

[@Devo491]

There are similar super-trees of Houn pine in Tasmania.

[@GNARGNARHEAD]

Triple-stranded DNA, very cool 👍

[@stevenkarnisky411]

Aspens are beautiful trees. I did not know about their interconnectedness until rather recently. Thanks for the update, Anton.

[@williamdusseau7583]

My Paw Paw grove spreads similarly. But it produces seeds in it's fruit also. I have seen quaking aspens on Michigan. I would like to get a start for my tree collection of 8.5 acres.

[@charlespeterson7149]

I used to live in Loa (first town southeast of Pando), and we started some quakies on our property. (Got them from Bowery Haven area, up at the north end of the lake, where I used to work.) Just dug up a couple of small ones and transplanted them along the fence between our driveway and our pasture. That was 55 years ago... the current owner is still fighting the blasted things. The horses eat the new stems on the pasture side, but the stems love to come up in the driveway. Mow them, they don't care. Roto-till them, and you get a population explosion.

[@rafacosta_x_]

There's a cashew tree in Brazil that covers an area of 9km² and is located in the middle of a city

[@tinkerstrade3553]

The wonders and beauty of nature never tire the soul. Spend a night out among the aspen when there's a little breeze, and you'll know you are never alone. That life is abundant throughout the world. If you look with open eyes and open heart, you'll find a spark of the Creator where modern man least expects. Here one finds the grandest church of all. A living church.

[@sillydilly2725]

I was there last year. So beautiful and very few other people

[@djdrack4681]

There's a couple very large fungal substrates/mushrooms that could contend with Pando for the largest organism.

[@DG-iw3yw]

With plants as cells and fungi as a nervous tissue, it would seem the planet could have been alive before we began to rot it away

[@thomasdoubting]

Dad HATED aspen trees "You strip the bark of one, and 5 new ones sprout‼️"

[@kevinslater4126]

Dude, I just went to Pando last week. Quite coincidential.

[@Kraflyn]

nice informative title

[@beowulfshaeffer8444]

Not to beat a dead horse, but I would also appreciate a follow-up regarding this Pando tree vs the giant mycelium organism that has a larger mass estimate.

[@dstaron3162]

I have a grass-like weed in my flower garden and lawn that spreads the same way and is endless as far as I can tell. It may be bigger than Pando.

[@Errumen]

I literally just visited Pando for the first time last weekend. How coincidental!

[@JesseHash]

i have these quaking aspens in my front yard. we get new baby trees coming out of nowhere every year and now i know why

[@memejeff]

Very cool

[@RoyCoffee-w5b]

A single organism created by interconnection of a root system. Together they are invincible. "We are all connected in the great web of life." Chief Seattle Or one from Sitting Bull that says As individual fingers, we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist. ~ Sitting Bull.

[@crimson4066]

The negative feedback loop that prevents too much genetic diversity could be the immune system of surrounding trees. Trees with novel glycoproteins could be seen as foreign and marked for destruction or cut off from resources by the other trees.

[@J_3_P_O]

I remember reading about this in the National Geographic when I was kid. 😃

[@mfanto1]

Dear Anton. 43 Hactare = 43000m2 that is nowhere near the 1000000m2 needed for a square Km. This makes a strip 1000m wide 430m long close to half a km2

[@jehl1963]

2 questions come to mind: 1) where did Pando come from ~60k years ago? Since these Aspins don't reproduce sexually -- How did Pando come into existence? I wonder if Pando is actually much older (maybe as old as this speces of Aspen), and the ~60k years represents the amount of time required for enough mutations to accumulate such that the original genetic code has been completely overwritten? Question 2 is -- do we honestly believe that in Pando's ~60k year existance, that it has never experienced a herd of deer grazing their way through the area??? Maybe having Deer graze on Pando is a way to "prune" its growth? Maybe by putting a fence around Pando, humans in their rather self-involved way are interfering with a natural, biological process?

[@Graybeard_]

Great topic and glad Anton revisited it. I'd like an explanation on how there are more than one genetically diverse Quaking Aspens. As he mentioned, Quaking Aspens are all over the US mountain states, the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada. I have half a dozen stands on my property. Clearly, they also reproduce sexually. My trees put out pollen sacks and produce seeds, so does the species occasionally mutate resulting in the three copies of DNA?

[@DCDevTanelorn]

I think what they are getting at is, because of the size of Pando and the distance that pollen drifts, alot of the trees never get pollinated by another stand. But even without outside sources of DNA, there are some differences within the stand due to mutations during vegetative growth / expansion.

[@Graybeard_]

@@DCDevTanelorn I agree. Thanks for the reply. There is a mountain near where I live that they found all the mosses and wildflowers in the top 1,000' were genetically different from everything below that elevation. Scientists concluded that the very top of this mountain was above the glaciers/ice sheets and preserved the plants genetically. All the plants bellow migrated in as the glaciers retreated.

[@thomaslabomba2794]

I live in Tasmania we have a 10500 year old Huon Pine stand

[@Jacobk-g7r]

6:54 i doubt it’s random, it’s probably a growth difference due to environment. Animals, people, roads, a lot of factors to consider as it grows. Could also be the smells they exchange that grows them relative and not exact.

[@Herbit-k4j]

I'm guessing that their genetic differences don't correlate with distance, since with each new clone, they basically take one step in a random walk and they are more likely survive in proximity to another clone. That means the new trees basically bounce around randomly in their established habitat over the thousands of years they are alive. One clone lineage may end up on the completely other side of their habitat compared to where they started just by chance.

[@BrodyLuv2]

This is science news you can be almost sure is real, good stuff . Unfortunately I think the majority of papers reported are mostly just incorrect. This is cool though 🕺

[@mechtheist]

It's called quaking aspen, or trembling aspen, not due to the sound but becuase the leaves tremble or shake like crazy in even light breezes. And each tree trunk is not a clone, the whole colony is a clone. Let wiki back me up: Quaking aspen propagates itself primarily through root sprouts, and extensive clonal colonies are common. Each colony is its own clone, and all trees in the clone have identical characteristics and share a single root structure. It was weird to hear the clame that they were clones and yet the same organism and that isn't how it works, if you clone something, you get an identical but not the same organism, it's another orgnaism.

[@rgutbrod]

Sounds like the "Bobiverse". We may be clones, but some of us develop differently.

[@jokermtb]

Haaa….nice snag

[@NancyRode-u9i]

🙋🏽‍♀️💖anton everyday

[@Jacobk-g7r]

2:55 I’m about to start cloning myself like an aspen.

[@charlesjmouse]

So.... -If all quaking aspens are clones, are the all clones of the same original mutation, or have a whole bunch become triploid independently - why? -If quaking aspens are triploid mutations what is the original wild-type species, does it still exist, what is it? -if it's triploid condition has removed the huge advantage of sexual reproduction, what 'fitness' advantage has it gained to remain viable?

[@cjturner2036]

Keeping animals out may be starving the tree of essential nutrients available from the animals' waste and from the bodies of animals that die within Pando's domain. Feeding the animals may be one additional feature underlying its survival.

[@OldBillOverHill]

There are other's in Colorado, on the Grande Mesa for instants.

[@glyngreen538]

Has Pando grown into the Friends of Panda and made them hybrid lifeforms as part of itself? I remember hearing a documentary about wildlife doing that sort of thing in ‘Area X’.

[@GonzaloCalvoPerez]

The largest and oldest living organism is in fact a Posidonia Oceanica sea grass meadow between Formentera and Ibiza, with 180 km², and 4500 years of age.

[@lorddovesnake]

According to some researchers, the fastest living organism is the pando express

[@John-wm6fg]

I can’t Remember at this Moment ?, But Is This Similar To The Trees That Grow Across Large Swathes of Swamps Where The Trees Stay Above Water But Their Root System Is Basically Continuously Linked Together , Making The Forest of Swamp Trees actually a Singular Tree That Keeps Spreading Across The Swamp areas ??? !!!

[@dimitardobrev3296]

I'm only 4:20 in so maybe it comes up but... How is this different from the way monopodial bamboo spreads via rhizomes and makes forests? Is that also "1 organism" then? Monopodial (running) bamboo forests can easily get bigger than this Pando. The question is does the bamboo's gregarious flowering mean that whatever "organism" the grove might be actually just dies every so often... Hoping someone can school me here... thanks. Back to the video.

[@meyou2696]

❤❤❤❤ cool!

[@ksongmaker1711]

“Come on now children, stay close, touching roots, we are going to spread outward, because remember what I taught you about what happens to trees if they grow too tall? “

[@ArnoldvanKampen]

Deer etc eating bark is usually countered by introducing predators. Typically wolfs?

[@Toxyethanol]

*Tree:* _exists for 60k+ years naturally_ *Government:* "we need to protect it from deer, hurry build a fence!"

[@DCDevTanelorn]

It’s because, just like in Yellowstone, the deer got out of control due to humans killing wolves. In Arizona, we also have to fence aspen stands because we eradicated the native elk, and the invasive elk browse aspens faster than they can regenerate. The invasive elk are here because of streams diverted to livestock ponds. We are the reason why barriers are needed. The Anthropocene is a mass extinction event.

[@kammurabi2313]

True. It is risky to disturb any natural potential reciprocation process. The larger wildlife could provide beneficial pruning which prevents unhealthy overabundance and leave their poop behind as well. Maybe not a big difference maker but over time it could be important. Hopefully everything is considered before these types of decisions are made.

[@kevinslater4126]

The problem is that we've killed all the natural predators of deer and other animals in the area meaning there are too many grazing on Pando preventing new stems from growing. We broke it, we're fixing it.

[@civildiscourse2000]

​@@kevinslater4126Yes, "fixing."

[@QuantumConundrum]

Well, if you look online, there are many recipes for all types of invasive species. I think that with enough practice, anyone can be a 5 star chef. The only limit is yourself.

[@AGILISFPV]

Can you make a video about the dream to dream communication study they came out recently???

[@evanpenn1]

I would be careful about that fence, which could result in the death of the organism, through unforeseen means. I think it would have been wiser to just let it be.

[@jamesmiddleton8128]

Without aspen trees, we wouldnt have honey mushrooms 😢 Also im making a drinking game where every time a wonderful person says pando u take a drink😮

[@goodtohaveinajam8148]

Try the Hazmat Modine song, "Bahamut"!! Much too big to see!

[@jimmyjames5960]

I'm going!

[@seattlegrrlie]

I really want to meet Pando.

[@Iammrspickley]

This is so cool....

[@Anthony-ru7sk]

Anton’s daily reminder that my existence is meaningless and last a blink of an eye

[@marknovak6498]

I wonder if there is somewhere underground where the ancient roots have wood stings. There has been nothing remaining from 60,000 years ago, not just a few hundred years ago.

[@annegrohs6181]

Isn't the largest organism on Earth a fungus (mushroom) in the Pacific Northwest? It has like a 4 mile area if I recall correctly.

[@Pbav8tor]

Is the fungi under the Olympic Penninsula smaller than Pando? It's really big.

[@paulflur4519]

What about the honey mushroom mycelium in Yellowstone?

[@russellbarndt6579]

An absolute wow factor ! Thank you sharing something from country even if it may allow people to be more but sadly for Christian Nationalist to "woke"

[@cyberbiosecurity]

03:02 even our body does not consist of cels with ideally identical DNA, because cells acumulate mutations upon division.

[@annecarter5181]

I’ve never heard of pando before. This is one of the oddest things I’ve heard of in a long time! The whole mutation- clone thing…… wow! 😮

[@DG-iw3yw]

Lots of species do it. Strawberries are quite a famous example, tequila agave, a huge list of domestic and undomesticated plants do similar things

[@IanM-id8or]

Is it just me, or did *everyone* hear the tune of *Quando Quando Quando* when Anton said "Pando, Pando, Pando"?

[@brobasticbroham446]

Neat, immune system study on effects of new pathogen on population....could be something there.

[@gianpaulgraziosi6171]

Yo I want 12 advanced mystics to meditate by the central node and TALK TO PaNdOoOooOo.

[@DG-iw3yw]

psilocybin. It works actually...

[@paulwallis7586]

How do soil biota affect Pando? Are they consistent relevant to mutations?

[@mr.fetching2267]

I love how we had a video about what sounds like a tree cult on a science channel. All Hail Pando!

[@TheRandomzcookie]

a discussion about earth sciences? on my favourite space science channel? i could kiss you

[@davidt1152]

If you think this is cool, check out Coastal Redwood propagation. Some of those trees are potentially millions of years old.

[@andrewepp6763]

Maybe pando IS Mother Earth

[@rydz656]

I leave tree eating beetles in Pando.

[@skibidiRAGE]

Maybe pando built the pyramids

[@Deletirium]

Maybe Pando is aliens an shit, here to deliver us crystals from the soul mother. Or perhaps it's just a vegetatively propagated aspen tree.

[@Kurahaara86]

It’s her bush.

[@DG-iw3yw]

Trees are like cells and the animals are like microorganisms, the planet is so complex that it could be alive. Try getting afew pompous and ant-like apes to see and undersrand it though...

[@AdamosDad]

The largest organism on Earth is a fungus known as Armillaria ostoyae, commonly referred to as the humongous fungus. It covers an area of approximately 3.5 square miles (9 square kilometers) in Malheur National Forest, Oregon, and is estimated to be thousands of years old.

[@danielkelly8870]

Actually it’s the seagrass known as Posidonia australis, growing in Australia’s Shark Bay. Posidonia australis officially holds the record for being the largest living organism on Earth, its spread across 180 square kilometres

[@AdamosDad]

@@danielkelly8870 So we along with Anton needed to do more research, or make something up, that is much larger.

[@megamushroom]

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