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'Pando' may have started as a seedling 34,000 years ago

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Quaking aspen known as Pando in Utah may be more than 34,000 years old .

Estimates range from several thousand to more than a million years old, but study is yet to be peer reviewed.

Researchers sequenced hundreds of samples from aspen and other trees in Utah .