Date uploaded: 2022-06-02 23:21:32

A new study revealed that self-cloning sea grass located off the western Australian coast is actually one individual plant, making it the largest ever and the size of the entire city of Cincinnati. It was determined that the sea grass has actually been cloning itself for nearly 4,500 years but all that grass is part of one entire plant. The plant is able to clone itself by creating genetically identical offshoots. That process of reproducing is rare in the animal kingdom yet happens in certain environmental conditions. The discovery makes the plant arguably the world’s largest living organism, researchers said. The plant currently provides habitat for a wide array of marine species including turtles, crabs, fish, dolphins and other marine mammals. Read more about the largest plant at the link in our bio.