A scientist has identified the largest organism on Earth

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Ученый выявил самый большой организм на ЗемлеThe first study was conducted in 1988.

The largest living creature on the Earth was considered to be a blue whale. A scientist from USA Matthew Taub managed to find the body where large sizes. And they found Armillaria Upper Michigan.

If the length of a blue whale is 33 meters, and weight – 150 tons, the Michigan Armillaria is a space of 37 hectares, and its weight is 400 tons.

However, such volumes are not from the mushroom and its mycelium – the body, which is underground. The first studies were conducted in 1988 and according to preliminary estimates, the mass of the fungus was not supposed to exceed 100 tons.

But more in-depth research found that it weighs four times more, and the age openlca is more than two thousand years.

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