That's amazing ! Post incredible facts here.

[mistermack]

One "amazing fact" that you often hear, is that the great barrier reef is the biggest living thing on Earth, about 2,000 km long.
I would disagree though. It's not "a living thing" it's billions of living things.
If you counted it as a living thing, you would have to count the Pacific Ocean as a living thing, or the Northern tundra or Tiga.

[Brian Peacock]

..... or the entire Earth.

[pErvinalia]

Isn't it the largest living "structure" or something like that?

[Hermit]

..... or the entire Earth.

Gaia

[JimC]

Isn't it the largest living "structure" or something like that?

The largest structure created by life...

[pErvinalia]

Except for the alien civilisation living at the core of the Earth.

[Hermit]

Breaking news: mistermack posted something that made sense!!!11!!1!

No, wait. False alarm.

[rainbow]

Except for the alien civilisation living at the core of the Earth.

How does the Flat Earth have a core?

[Brian Peacock]

A specimen of the Armillaria ostoyae fungus found in Malheur National Forest, Oregon, US, is the largest living organism yet discovered - 2000+ acres in size and between 2000 - 8000 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria_ostoyae

[pErvinalia]

Except for the alien civilisation living at the core of the Earth.

How does the Flat Earth have a core?

It's interdimensional innit.

[pErvinalia]

A specimen of the Armillaria ostoyae fungus found in Malheur National Forest, Oregon, US, is the largest living organism yet discovered - 2000+ acres in size and between 2000 - 8000 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria_ostoyae

Interesting. I think the King Billy pines in Tasmania's highlands are one organism. Or maybe that's only in one section. Hermit will google the details.

[JimC]

From memory, they're not so much one organism but a population of clones with little genetic diversity.

A bit like republicans...

[pErvinalia]

You realise that doesn't compute (not the republican bit)? Clones are genetically identical.

[pErvinalia]

I had the wrong "pine" anyway. It's the Huon Pine.

A stand of trees reputed to be in excess of 10,500 years old was recently found in western Tasmania on Mount Read. Each of the trees in this stand is a genetically identical male that has reproduced vegetatively. Although no single tree in this stand is of that age, the stand itself as a single organism has existed that long.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagarostrobos

[Brian Peacock]

You realise that doesn't compute (not the republican bit)? Clones are genetically identical.

Yes, but are they the same organism?