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Pando : Oldest, Heaviest, or Largest?

It sounds like it might swallow up large parts of a major city, but Pando isn’t going to hurt anyone. It has long been considered Earth’s oldest living organism (somewhere between 14,000 and 80,000 years old) and its heaviest (weighing in at 13 million pounds). Pando may also

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