Earth’s Gigantic Living Wonders: From a 77-Sq-Mile Seagrass to a Vast Underground Fungus
A tour of Earth’s six largest living things: a 77-square-mile Shark Bay seagrass meadow—the largest plant; the 2,385-acre Humongous Fungus in Oregon; the blue whale, the largest animal; the General Sherman tree; the Pando aspen clone; and the corpse flower, highlighting how these organisms achieve their extraordinary scale and longevity.