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Pando, the world's largest organism, may have been growing nonstop since the 1st humans left Africa, study suggests

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Pando, an enormous quaking aspen that spans more than 100 acres ( 40 hectares ) in Utah , is one of the oldest organisms on Earth .

The oldest non-clonal organism on Earth is Methusalah , a bristlecone pine in eastern California that is 4,856 years old .

Pando is the world's largest tree, with 47,000 individual stems in the Fishlake National Forest in south-central Utah .