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Earth's Largest Organism Slowly Being Eaten, Scientist Says


In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that provides an entire ecosystem on which plants and animals have relied for thousands of years.

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