The world’s largest organism - Alex Rosenthal
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The largest animal in the world is the blue whale, which weighs a massive 150 metric tons. Even so, it’s not remotely close to being the largest organism by weight. That title goes to an organism so huge that it’s estimated to weigh the equivalent of 40 blue whales. So what is this behemoth? And… where is it? Alex Rosenthal shares the story of the enormous and ancient Pando.
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yes because we need trees to serve they made oxygen
not rely because it is only 106 acres of trees
Yes we need trees to breathe
no what do we care its in Utah not here also we don't need to see stuff like that we have phones and pcs
I believe that we should work to save Pando trees because of how beneficial they could be to us in the future.
It’s known as Pando and it is believed to be the largest living organism on Earth. But scientists say that overgrazing by deer and elk is now threatening Pando's survival
I think saving it should be a top priority by scientists and environmentalists alike because it can be a perfect sample for scientific research since all the trunks have the same genes they can use those to have more conviction about the research that they have done when all the trunks show a same reaction.