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Meet The World's Largest Living Organism More specifically, the contender for the world’s largest known organism is a honey fungus living in the Blue Mountains of Oregon. This humongous fungus occupies almost 2,400 acres (965 hectares) of soil, covering an area as big as 1,665 football fields.
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Largest organisms Pando, a clonal colony of the aspen tree, is widely considered to be the largest such organism by mass. Even if such colonies are excluded, trees retain their dominance of this listing, with the giant sequoia being the most massive tree. Among animals, the largest species are all marine mammals, specifically whales.
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- Add to Trip. General Sherman is the largest living organism on earth. He stands as testament to what nature can do when both unhindered and protected by man. Located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park, he glows brilliant orange and green against the typically blue sky of this portion of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
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Largest organisms The largest organisms found on Earth can be determined according to various aspects of an organism's size, such as: mass, volume, area, length, height, or even genome size. Some organisms group together to form a superorganism, but such are not classed as single large organisms. The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest structure composed of living entities, stretching 2,000 km, but contains many organisms of many types of species. This article lists the largest species for various types of
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- The largest living thing on Earth is a humongous fungus. Forget blue whales and giant redwood trees. The biggest living organism is over 2 miles across, and you'll hardly ever see it. 1  Share on Facebook. 2  Share on Twitter. 3  Share on Reddit.  Share on 1  WhatsApp. Share on Google+.  Share by 1  Email. Share on Facebook.  Share on 1  Twitter. Share on 2  Reddit. Share on StumbleUpon.  Share 1  on Google+. Share  by Email. By Nic Fleming.
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- (William West, AFP / Getty Images). The giant squid is the world's largest invertebrate, and the largest ever measured was 59 feet long. Giant squids also have the largest eyes of any animal, each one about the size of a human head. The etruscan shrew is the smallest mammal (by weight) in the world. The smallest animal by skull size is the bumblebee bat. The sea wasp jellyfish (pictured) has enough venom to kill 60 adult humans.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) - Ask Shamu The blue whale is the largest animal on earth (growing larger than even the biggest of dinosaurs were). A 100 foot blue whale is as long as three school buses. Blue whales grow to about 70 to 80 feet in the northern hemisphere (north of the equator) and 90 to 100 feet in the southern hemisphere (south of the equator).
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- Some organisms group together to form a superorganism (such as ants or bees), but such are not classed as single large organisms. The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest structure composed of living entities, stretching 2,000 km (1,200 mi), but contains many organisms of many species.
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Largest organisms Largest organisms. The largest organisms found on Earth can be determined according to various aspects of an organism's size, such as: mass, volume, area, length, height, or even genome size. Some organisms group together to form a superorganism (such as ants or bees), but such are not classed as single large organisms.
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- The blue whale is the largest mammal on Earth. It is also the largest animal known to have ever lived. It is not, however, the largest organism, which is a disputed title betw … een some plants and fungi.
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Largest organisms The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), of the order Proboscidea, is the largest living land animal. A native of various open habitats in sub-Saharan Africa, this elephant is born commonly weighing about 100 kilograms (220 lb). The largest elephant ever recorded was shot in Angola in 1974.
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- The blue whale is the largest creature to have ever lived on earth! One of the most important reasons that whales have become so large is they have more space-more room to roam. Remember: over 70% of the earth is covered in ocean water. Another nice thing about living in the oceans, besides all the real estate, is the weightlessness effect of water.
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- Perhaps one of the world’s most emotive and iconic animals, the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the largest living terrestrial mammal, with the largest recorded individual reaching a massive four metres at the shoulder and weighing an impressive ten tonnes.
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Air Date: Week of February 1, 2013 stream/downloadthis segment as an MP3 file The world’s largest and possibly oldest living organism is Pando, a Quaking Aspen clone in Utah. Karen Mock, Professor of Molecular Ecology at Utah State University tells host Steve Curwood that precise estimates about the age of Pando are not currently possible, but it may be many thousands of years old.
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Quaking Aspen Populus tremuloides Aspen holds the title of largest living organism. The reason is that aspens grow in stands (called clones) and reproduce primarily by sending up sprouts from their roots. This means that virtually all the trees in a clone are connected. In Utah, where it serves as the state tree, one clone was observed to have 47,000 stems.
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The largest living thing on Earth is a humongous fungus The largest living thing on Earth is a humongous fungus. Forget blue whales and giant redwood trees. Italian chef Antonio Carluccio says it is delicious with spaghetti and red chilli. But to gardeners it is a menace that threatens their hedges, roses and rhododendrons.
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The 20 Biggest Mammals The Blue Whale, the world's biggest whale. Wikimedia Commons. At about 100 feet long and 200 tons, not only is the Blue Whale the biggest mammal in the world today, but it's the largest vertebrate animal in the history of life on earth: not even the largest dinosaurs approached it in bulk.
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Air Date: Week of February 1, 2013 stream/downloadthis segment as an MP3 file But the world’s largest organism is now under threat. Here to explain why are Paul Rogers, Director of the Western Aspen Alliance at Utah State University and Karen Mock, Professor of Conservation Genetics and Molecular Ecology at USU.
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Largest organisms The largest cockroach is the giant burrowing cockroach (Macropanesthia rhinoceros). This species can attain a length of 8.3 cm (3.3 in) and a weight of 36 g (1.3 oz). The beetles are the largest order of organisms on earth, with about 350,000 species so far identified. The most massive species are the Goliathus, Megasoma, and Titanus beetles already mentioned.
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What is the largest animal that ever lived? The Blue Whale is the heaviest animal ever, but possibly not the longest. The largest animal that ever lived, is alive now, and is the Blue Whale, however, there are two Dinosaurs that could perhaps be larger. Amphicoelias Fragillimus, which if existed would have been up to 196 feet long and 122 tons. Also, Bruhathkayosaurus Matleyi, which possibly was 110 feet long and 139 tons.
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Earth's biggest living thing might be a tree with thousands of clones John Zapell/US Forest Service. The largest organism on Earth probably isn't a whale or a giant octopus or anything else you might naturally think of first. It's a tree — or a group of genetically identical trees that stretches across more than 100 acres of Utah's Fishlake National Forest. Called Pando, which is Latin for “I spread, the group of quaking aspens is considered one of the largest — by area — and most massive living organisms on earth. The quaking aspen, found from coast to coast across North America, grows in groups called stands.
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Air Date: Week of February 1, 2013 stream/downloadthis segment as an MP3 file A small section of Pando. The world’s largest and possibly oldest living organism is Pando, a Quaking Aspen clone in Utah. Karen Mock, Professor of Molecular Ecology at Utah State University tells host Steve Curwood that precise estimates about the age of Pando are not currently possible, but it may be many thousands of years old.
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- Description. With lengths up to 100 feet (30 m) and weights up to 150 tons (136 metric tons), the blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived on this planet. An average individual is 70 feet (21 m) long and weighs 100 tons (90 metric tons).
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- The largest animal that ever lived, is alive now, and is the Blue Whale, however, there are two Dinosaurs that could perhaps be larger. Amphicoelias Fragillimus, which if exis … ted would have been up to 196 feet long and 122 tons. Also, Bruhathkayosaurus Matleyi, which possibly was 110 feet long and 139 tons.
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The largest living thing on Earth is a humongous fungus The largest living thing on Earth is a humongous fungus. Forget blue whales and giant redwood trees. The biggest living organism is over 2 miles across, and you'll hardly ever see it. Share on Facebook.
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World's Largest Trees The oldest living organisms on earth are North America's bristlecone pine trees. The species scientific name, Pinus longaeva, is a tribute to the pine's longevity. California's Methuselah bristlecone is nearly 5,000 years and it has lived longer than any other tree.