Largest Clone
Scientists have discovered that a massive underwater seagrass meadow off Western Australia has cloned itself into the largest single organism on the planet. Known as Poseidon’s ribbon weed, the plant is about 4,500 years old.
A team from the University of Western Australia found that it has spread from a single seed to now cover about 200 square km. The researchers analyzed 18,000 shoots from across the plant and discovered it is a single living thing. The expansive cloning may be due to the extreme conditions of intense sunlight along with large fluctuations in temperature and salinity in its Shark Bay home.
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