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The world's largest and oldest organism may have been growing for 80,000 years
This is Pando, "the Trembling Giant," an astonishing clonal colony of quaking aspen trees located in Utah's Fishlake National ...
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Largest Organism in The World Could Officially Be The Oldest Living Thing
Sequencing hundreds of samples of material collected from the vast network of quaking aspen ( Populus tremuloides ), a team ...
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Pando, the world's largest organism, may have been growing nonstop since the 1st humans left Africa, study suggests
Pando, an enormous quaking aspen that spans more than 100 acres (40 hectares) in Utah, is not only one of the largest known ...
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Scientists may have finally cracked puzzle of what came first: chicken or egg
Chromosphaera perkinsii, a unicellular organism found in Hawaii, first appeared at least one billion years ago and underwent cell division to produce what resembled a precursor to eggs.
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Ancient unicellular organism indicates embryonic development might have existed prior to animals' evolution
perkinsii), an ancestral species of protist. This unicellular organism separated from the animal evolutionary line more than a billion years ago, offering valuable insight into the mechanisms that ...
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What Came First the Chicken or the Egg? An Ancient Unicellular Indicates It Was the Egg
This study is published in the journal Nature. The first life forms to appear on Earth were unicellular, i.e. composed of a single cell, such as yeast or bacteria. Later, animals - multicellular ...