It turns out that the largest known living organism is a fungus. Read the article and see the estimate of its age!
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThat’s a *big and old* fungus! It wasn’t clear to me in the article how much harm it does the trees in the forest, although if it’s been around for up to 8000 years and there are trees growing there, it must be fairly innocuous.