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Quaking Aspen (Pando) has an estimated weight of 5,987 tonnes. It ranks #4 of 128 in the Nature & Materials category.
Source excerpt: At 6,600 tons and 80,000 years old, Pando (consisting of 47,000 trees) could easily be the Earth’s heaviest living thing. It’s a clonal colony of male trembling aspen trees that look extremely similar and possess identical genetic markers.
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At 6,600 tons and 80,000 years old, Pando (consisting of 47,000 trees) could easily be the Earth’s heaviest living thing.
| Kilograms | 5,987,419 kilograms |
| Pounds | 13,200,000 pounds |
| Metric tonnes | 5,987 tonnes |
| Grams | 5,987,419,284 grams |
| Ounces | 211,200,000 ounces |
| Stones | 942,857 stones |
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Quaking Aspen (Pando) typically weighs about 5,987 tonnes, within a recorded range of 5,987 tonnes.
It ranks #4 of 128 entries in Nature & Materials, heavier than 98% of items in the dataset.
The data comes from 1 source articles on weightofstuff.com, most recently updated on 2024-05-17.
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