The Biggest Organism on Earth

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REFERENCES
Pando
The World's Largest Organism in Trouble. Week of Feb 1 2013. Living on Earth.

Grant, M. & Mitton, J. 2010. Case Study: The Glorious, Golden, and Gigantic Quaking Aspen. Nature Education Knowledge 3(10):40

DeWoody, J. et al. 2008. "Pando" Lives: Molecular Genetic Evidence of a Giant Aspen Clone in Central Utah. Western North American Naturalist, 68(4):493-497.

NYTimes Article, Dec. 21 1992

Humongous fungus
Schmitt, C. and Tatum, M. 2008. The Malheur National Forest: Location of the World's Largest Living Organism [The Humongous Fungus]

Casselman, A. Oct. 4 2007. Strange but True: The Largest Organism on Earth Is a Fungus. Scientific American.

Ferguson, BA. et al. 2003. Coarse-scale population structure of pathogenic Armillaria species in a mixed-conifer forest in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 33:612-623, 10.1139/x03-065.

Methods for estimating weight of fungi
Smith, M., Bruhn, J., and Anderson, J. 1992. The fungus Armillaria bulbosa is among the largest and oldest living organisms. Nature 356: 428-431.

Tallest tree

Howell, E. April 15, 2013. What is the World's Tallest Tree? Livescience.

Krulwich, R. April 8 2011. The World's Tallest Tree Is Hiding Somewhere In California. krulwich wonders.

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[hoid]

today i learned that trees transport pizza and icecream. the more you know

[bunnyhopperaj]

I think the trees are way cooler.. All grown from one seed... crazy

[dontpuchit]

That giant panda was a theory of mine, and people laughed at me. Good to know that there are people with the same way of thinking.

[childofnewlight]

Am I the only one who found the giant underground panda almost terrifying?

[RobertMisner]

Blue whales act like such total tough guys until BAM giant underground Panda 

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Update: Posidonia australis or ribbon weed is the new largest organism by area, covering 200 square kilometres (77 sq mi) off the coast of western Australia.
Previous largest organism by area: Honey fungus in the Malheur National Forest in Oregon, U.S. (8.9 km^2 or 2, 200 acres)
Largest organism by mass: Pando (6, 000, 000 kg)
Largest organism by breadth: Posidonia oceanica, a marine plant in the Mediterranean (15 km)
Largest organism by genome size: Pieris japonica, a rare Japanese flower (149 billion nucleotides)

[carledwardsagan]

I misread the title for something else.... 

[fombocombo]

That Panda is China's Superweapon!

[RedStefan]

Still that giant panda needs a giant bamboo forest to sustain life.

[Hector-bjls]

For some reason the mega tree makes my skin crawl... The fungus also has this effect. However I don't consider it unusual, because do all other fungi do too.

[Mnbird]

GIANT EARTH GOD PANDA CREATURES CREATE THE EARTHQUAKES, I FIGURED IT

[TaylorYarick]

I only clicked on this because I thought it said "The Biggest Orgasm on Earth" with a picture of a whale next to it.... *I thought I was going to learn about whale orgasms*... you can imagine my disappointment. 

[SinerAthin]

The commenters in this video have so dirty minds...

[thoruszwolf]

I am now terrified at the prospect of a colossal panda living deep under ground D:

[HoztileMANIkyn]

There's a titanic panda living in the center of the earth 

[JoanTorrens]

Awesome video! From Wikipedia: In 2006 it was discovered in the Balearic Islands a Posidonia Oceanica plant about 8 km long, which was attributed to an age of 100, 000 years. The plant is situated within a meadow which stretches some 700 km ² from the Es Freus (Formentera) to Ses Salines Beach (Ibiza). Identifying the plant was possible through the use of genetic markers.

[vaxivop]

I really really loved this episode. Great job, Henry!

[SollowP]

Still waiting for Cthulhu to be found.

[javalin]

Alright, fess up.
Who else read the title as "Biggest Orgasm on Earth"?

[substitutedollproductions]

Anyone notice how the biggest organisms listed were all in the US?