The largest living organism on Earth Today marks the second ever World Reef Day, an observance created to help focus global attention on the deteriorating health of on our planet's vital reef systems, and also to help marshal efforts to help them recover. Why should you care about the health...
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It's not a dinosaur, whale, or giant deep-sea creature. The world's largest known living organism is an underground fungus that most people wouldn't notice.
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and small leaves that flutter in the slightest breeze, Pando (Latin for “I spread”) is actually 47,000genetically identical stemsthat arise from an interconnected root network. This single genetic individual weighs around 6 million tonnes. By mass, it is the largest single...
17The Largest Single Living Organism Based on Area Is a Specimen of Seagrass You might picture large trees or giant whales when you think of the biggest organism. But the record actually belongs to a specimen ofPosidonia australisseagrass (aka Poseidon’s Ribbon Weed) in Shark Bay, Australia....
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the most incredible living things on this planet. It is also the largest living thing on Earth and can actually be seen from space. Yet thanks to our species, the reef is struggling to stay alive. ...
A virus is an infectious agent that replicates inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses can infect animals, plants, and microorganisms, such as bacteria. Russian botanist Dmitri Ivanovsky wrote an article about non-bacterial pathogens infecting tobacco plants in 1892. The tobacco mosaic...
on Earth and life on Mars share a common origin. We know for certain that rocks blasted off the surface of Mars by asteroid impacts have ended up on Earth. It's also likely that Earth rocks have traveled to Mars. If living microbes were trapped inside such spacefaring rocks and survived ...
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