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Which living organism is the largest?

Mushroom.

And not even some kind of particularly rare there. On the stumps in your garden, you have probably met colonies of ordinary mushrooms (Armillaria ostoyae) more than once.

For your own good, let's hope they don't reach the size of the largest officially registered specimen. Growing in the Maloor National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon, the record-breaking honey agaric covers an area of 890 hectares and is between XNUMX and XNUMX years old. Most of it is hidden from view and is underground in the form of a massive litter of tendril-like white mycelia (mycelia) (the mushroom equivalent of the roots). The fungus entangles tree roots, causing the general death of trees, and only occasionally breaks through the soil in the form of harmless small placers of golden fungi.

Initially, it was believed that the giant honey agaric from Oregon is a separate cluster growing throughout the forest, but not so long ago, scientists came to a consensus: we are dealing with the world's largest holistic organism that connects underground.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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Eels are fish. Like all fish, they have a backbone, live in water and breathe with gills. They are cold-blooded, which means that their body temperature changes depending on the temperature of the environment. Most eels live in the seas. Some species live in fresh water most of their lives, but they also spend part of it in salt water. All eels spawn only in salt water.

North American freshwater eels. They live in lakes, ponds, rivers, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River. Sea eels, moray eels, live only in salt water, and can be found along the mountainous coast of southern California, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic coast of the United States.

Eels have a varied diet, including dead fish and small living organisms. They lead a nocturnal lifestyle. Sometimes young eels can be found in the shallow waters of the seas and in the evening. Disturbed, they quickly burrow into the sand. The skin of eels is smooth and slippery. Some freshwater and other types of eels have scales on their skin. Freshwater eels move long distances to the sea to spawn there, although they live in fresh water.

Eels travel from fresh water to seas and oceans and back without harm to life. Biologists explain this by the fact that the mucous membrane of the body protects them from damage. Freshwater eels, moray eels and some other species have an amazing ability to recover from injuries that would lead other fish to death. The substance in the blood of acne prevents the penetration of infection.

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