Ancient seagrass holds secrets of the oldest living organism on Earth
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 16:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
It's big, it's old and it lives under the sea -- and now an international research collaboration has confirmed an ancient seagrass to hold the secrets of the oldest living organism on Earth. Because ancient giant Posidonia oceanica reproduces asexually generating clones of itself, a single organism has been found to span up to 15 kilometers wide, reaching more than 6,000 metric tonnes in mass and may well be more than 100,000 years old.