largest living thing ever known to man.?

Question

what is it. i know the answer, let see who gets the points.

Answer 1

The largest living thing is a fungus with the scientific name Armillaria ostoyae, known more commonly as the honey mushroom. It stretches 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometers) across and covers an area larger than 1,600 football fields. Most of it is hidden underground.

Answer 2

There's this great red tree forest that's supposedly all connected by the roots. I guess that would be it. Or, if you believe in the Gaia theory, then earth itself is the largest living thing. Take your pick.

And I just want to say that "large" may be defined in many different ways. The fungus might be large, but the redwood forest/tree weighs a lot more and is much taller. Actually, it might have an all around greater mass and volume, which would most definitely make it the biggest.

Answer 3

Depending on which sources you consult, the Great Barrier Reef covers 174,000 square miles or 213,000 or something in between; stretches 1,200 miles from top to bottom, or 1,600. Even by the shortest measure, however, it is equivalent in length to the west coast of the United States. And it is of course an immensely vital habitat—the oceanic equivalent of the Amazon rainforest. Because it consists of some 3,000 separate coral reefs and more than 600 islands, some people insist that it is not a single entity and therefore cannot accurately be termed the largest living thing on earth. That seems to me a little like saying that Los Angeles is not a city because it consists of lots of separate buildings. And it is all thanks to trillions of little coral polyps working with a dedicated and microscopic diligence over 18 million years, each adding a grain or two of thickness before expiring in a self-created silicate tomb. Hard not to be impressed.

Answer 4

What if the Earth itself is really the largest living organism known to man, but we just don't know it?

Yes, tomorrow we discover that Mother Earth itself is alive, she's just sleeping for the last 4.6 billion years. After all, nobody has ever seen what's really in the core, but inside what if you find a large mass of moving bowels and a dense iron core that functions as a brain or heart? It would change our whole outlook on what defines a lifeform! And why not? Does the earth not poop magma, fart earthquakes, and piss hurricanes? Or am I just talkin' crazy here?!? The irony would be everything we know to be alive on this planet would be nothing more than parasites living off the debris and dead skin of another lifeform. ;)

Answer 5

Known to man, as in man has existed at the same time? The Blue Whale.

Know to man as in discovery and knowledge regardless of when it existed?

Listed as the Argentinosaurus for where it was discovered in 2000 is the largest dinosaur so far discovered.

Added: Oh great a fungus! :)

Answer 6

I think that is the General Sherman tree in Sequoia Natl. Park, Ca.

(he later wrote) Oops, I didn't know about the fungus... See, Answers really does work!

Answer 7

the blue whale is the largest livingthing known to man !!!!!!!

Answer 8

Blue whale

Answer 9

Blue whale

Answer 10

I believe it's some sort of fungus, not redwoods or blue whales as most assume.