I was up in the White Mountains this weekend, walking out to my car in the AMC’s Highland Center parking lot after a hike, ...

Some organisms can outlive humans by hundreds or even thousands of years, and the contender for Earth's oldest living thing ...

Quaking aspen can be found from Alaska to Mexico and ... branches, leaves and a shared root system (Figure 2). All of these structures arose from a single aspen seed, often in the very distant ...

In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that ...

With life coursing through its interconnected roots and stems ... Pando is the most extensive known clonal colony of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), originating from a single seedling.

I’m pretty sure this was a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides ... new research suggests that the underground parts of these trees, the roots, might never truly go dormant.