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Behold, the largest organism on Earth, the Honey Mushroom.
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Sorry, wrong. This is.
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both wrong...

this is

(Gaian theory ftw)
>> Anonymous
>>173866
Not a single organism.
>> Anonymous
Well the heaviest is a tree and the oldest too
>> Anonymous
>Honey fungus or Armillaria is a genus of parasitic fungi that live on trees and woody shrubs. It includes about 10 species formerly lumped together as A. mellea.
>Armillaria is long lived and form some of the largest living organisms in the world. The largest single organism (of the species Armillaria ostoyae) covers more than 3.4 square miles (8.9 km²) and is thousands of years old. Some species of Armillaria are bioluminescent [...]
What they don't make clear on Wiki is that what covers such acreage is the part that grow IN the soil/tree roots/etc., and whether it truly is the largest.
Other posters can post their organism's numbers.
>> Anonymous
>>173896
Also not a single organism.
"Gaia" is a religion or a philosophical theory, not a scientific one.
Holism is not much loved by hard science.
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Behold, the largest organism on Earth, Your Mom.
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When I was young I read about those and would have nightmares of fungus tentacles sprouting out from the ground and dragging me below the Earth.
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>>173976
>>173896
lol In before "GB2Gaia"

>>173865
>>173974
OP article on teh internet wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria

See also "Bloop" (more /x/ content, but related perhaps...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop
>> Anonymous
>>173866
what is that?
>> Anonymous
>>174052

Great Barrier Reef.
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Sorry guys, coastal redwood trees win. They are the tallest organisms in the world, and largest by mass.
>> Anonymous
>>173981
There's an episode of the X-Files that's about that.
>> Anonymous
>>174229largest by mass.

I think a stand of aspens called Pando in Utha disagree with you.
>> Anonymous
>>173865
scale or it didn't happen
>> Anonymous
Populus tremuloides Is the name of the tree... look for it ;) Giant Redwoods are a joke against it.

Aspen Clone: World's Heaviest Living Organism?

An aspen clone in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah is composed of 47,000 stems of genetically identical aspen trees (), with a total weight of 6 million kilograms (6,500 tons). Since the aspen is a dioecious species (with separate male and female individuals in the population), this monstrous clone is the same sex, in this case all males. The clone has developed asexually by suckering, where new adventitious stems arise from a gigantic spreading root system. Suckering is a common method of asexual reproduction in the willow family (Salicaceae), which includes cottonwoods (Populus), willows (Salix) and aspen. The above-ground stems appear to be separate trees, but they all arose from a genetically identical root system. Like the creosote bush clones in the White Mountains of California, it is quite likely that some of the root systems have broken away, so that some of the trees are no longer directly connected to the clone, but they still share a common genome.
>> Anonymous
>>174045
Behold, the Blue Whale. Layer of the largest eggs on Earth.
>> Anonymous
>>174466

No, you're confused. It's dolphins that lay eggs, not blue whales, silly!