The World's Most Great Living Creatures

The World's Most Great Living Creatures

Many people think that the biggest living things on Earth is the blue whale. It turns out that opinion wrong. Based on the search serupedia from various sources, the largest creature is not falling on the blue whale. Here's a summary. (see also: 5 drinks with strange taste and seventh oldest person in the world)

Weighs 200 tons and a length of 33 m, compared with this organism, the blue whale looks like a tea bottle compared keratnya. The world's largest living creature is an Armillaria ostoyae in the Malheur National Forest in Oregon, USA

Want to know what animal it? Why not animals, but the fungus. Armillaria ostoyae or honey fungus that lives in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon, USA. The fungus lives about 3 feet below the ground surface and possess an area of about 890 hectares / 8.9 km2 and at least 2,400 years old, even more.

Believe it or not, organisms that live underground it was not gang mushrooms, but only one fungus alone. If you want to be a crispy snack fungus, Armillaria ostoyae can be enough to feed the entire population of the island of Java for a week.

Giant fungus is described along 5.6 kilometers and has spread to three times that number into the ground. This fungus has blanketed the area with 1665 times as large as a football field.

The discovery comes after Catherine Parks, a scientist at the Pacific Northwest Research Station in La Grande, Oregon who heard the death of a large tree that continues from root to root in the forest east Prairie city.

By using aerial photographs, Parks see that area filled with trees dying. He then identifies the type of fungus in DNA testing. He compared the elements of 12 fungi and he saw that 61 samples come from the same organism.

It means there is a fungus that grows so large from what ever imaginable. The only evidence on the surface of this fungus is the appearance of roundness golden autumn with rain.

"They can be eaten but not the kind of food is best," said Tina Dreisbach, a biotani and mycologist at the US Forest Service in Corvallis, Oregon. If you dig into the roots of the trees that have died, it would seem like painting a white rubber.

This is a layer of mycelium which describe fluids and carbohydrates from trees that feed the fungus.