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CLONAL COLONIES
The 9,000-Year-Old Forest That Is Technically One Single TreeHigh in Sweden's mountains, a Norway spruce named Old Tjikko reveals a root system over 9,000 years old, challenging our understanding of i...
How One Ocean Animal Quietly Lived for More Than Five CenturiesAn ocean quahog, Arctica islandica, has been confirmed as the oldest non-clonal animal, living for 507 years, predating the Roman Empire. S...
The Evolutionary Trade-Off That Makes Some Species Almost Impossible to KillNature's most resilient creatures, like tardigrades and Greenland sharks, have mastered extreme durability by sacrificing rapid growth and ...