What is the world's largest living creature? Posted on 05/30/2006 11:14:02 PM PDT by LibWhacker
What is the world's largest living creature?
Scientists from the CSIC. the University of the Balearic Islands, Portugal, Carribean and the USA have discovered a Posidonia Oceanica, of more than 8 kilometers in length, and 100,000 years old.
The 'Posideonia Oceanica' is, in layman's terms 'sea grass', and the wavy plains of this plant found off the coasts Ibiza and Formentera, have been, since 1999, part of the reason for the award to Ibiza as a 'Heritage of Humanity'.
The huge plant was discovered between 'Es Freus' (the straits that separate Ibiza from Formentera) and the 'Ses Salines' beach....and quite by accident, as there are more than 100,000,000 of these plants in the area.
The bad news is that, because of the pollution in the Mediterranean, these plants are disappearing at the rate pf 5% per year.
BUMP!
exactly my point, makes about as much sense as calling grass a living creature.
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Ibiza, Mallorca, and Benidorm too
I searched all these places
But never found you...
“....... mushrooms contain over 36,000 sexes.”
Oh great, I jut had chanterelles in my omelet. I will fret all week wondering what sex it was.
yitbos
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