IN NUMBERS

80,000

The age of the Pando aspen – an expanse of 40,000 genetically identical trees deemed to be a single organism found in Fishlake National Forest, Utah. It is among the largest, heaviest and oldest living organisms on Earth.

10 TRILLION

The number of frames captured each second by a camera created by a team based at Caltech and the University of Quebec – that’s fast enough to capture the passage of a pulse of light as it travels through space.

300

The number of mammal species thought to have been eradicated due to human activity, as estimated by researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark.