What’s the Biggest Living Thing on Earth?

Dinosaurs! No. Blue whales! No? Pandas? Ha. It really depends on what you consider a thing and what’s not a thing. And what’s actually living and what’s not traditionally considered living but is. And what’s on Earth and what’s inside Earth. Because if we’re counting any sort of organisms, it could very well be mushrooms and trees that take the world’s biggest title. [MinuteEarth]

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Look At All the Creepy Stuff Inside a Single Drop of Pond Water

Wow. This is incredible. Captured by high-definition microscopy, the footage shows the buzzing world and slimy life inside a single drop of pond water. It’s completely alien, it’s unnerving and it makes your stomach turn itself inside out. There are brown flatworms, Medusa looking nematodes, starfish-like hydras ‘defecating’ and more oozy organisms.

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