The World's Largest Organism Is Slowly Being Eaten, Scientist Says

https://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 24 NOVEMBER 2021 | RICHARD ELTON WALTON

[kiryandil]

The Humongous Fungus

[xp38]

Yeah me too. Recall reading about it years ago.

[billyboy15]

OK, ok picture this.

You have committed a crime and the sentence is being forced to watch a mud wrestling match between Stacey Abrams and Michelle Obama. The good news is you get to pick the winner’

The bad news is the loser gets to sit on your face.

[Jamestown1630]

WEll, it said ‘largest’ not ‘heaviest’ :-)

[Equine1952]

That’s unjustified Homicide.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[piasa]

I wonder if these folks know that Sassafras trees are likewise interconnected...so are all kinds of suffering trees and shrubs. So maybe this aspen grove isn’t the world’s largest organism, after all, but just has better branding.

[Tallguy]

The people running the forest service are Ivy League grads who have never so much as been on a camping trip. Their idea of the wild is from Disney movies.

Invite deer hunters in... problem solved.

[mad_as_he$$]

World’s biggest?

https://www.discovery.com/nature/the-largest-living-thing-on-earth-is-a-3-5-square-mile-fungus

[kaktuskid]

In Colorado aspens are so plentiful they are used for furnace filters and matchsticks

[struggle]

I thought this was about Rosie O’Donnell

[logi_cal869]

I was referring to “largely stable climate ever since.”

[M Kehoe]

I thought the article was about Stacey Abrams.

My apologies.

5.56mm

[M Kehoe]

Ack!

5.56mm

[lepton]

The deer. Get rid of most of the deer. We have plenty of evidence that an excess deer population will denude forests of all new growth for decades.

[seowulf]

Now, hold on a minute!

Armillaria ostoyae, widely known as the largest fungus in the world when it was discovered in Oregon in 1998, stretches 3.5 miles (5.6 km) across (i.e about 9.6 sq. mi. assuming it’s circular, or 6144 acres).

They think it’s about 2400 years old.

I tell ya, fungi just don’t get no respect.

[1FreeAmerican]

Thanks for that link! I was thinking the same thing.

[Yardstick]

The World’s Largest Organism
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Just call it the Big O.

[KosmicKitty]

And Michael Moore

[ProtectOurFreedom]

We are overrun by the deer here in North Idaho. They’ve got five million acres to play in just east of here, but they all want the tasty treats in my yard.