The world's biggest clone is a 77-square-mile 'immortal' meadow of seagrass
The massive plant is around 4,500 years old but could continue expanding indefinitely.
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World's Biggest Clone is a 77-square-mile 'immortal' Meadow of Seagrass
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King_of_All_Tyrants
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That's pretty cool. Corals will fragment of course, and IIRC some will even reproduce asexually. But I never heard of that for seagrasses - that's actually very cool. (albeit one might fear for the meadow's resilience - it seems to me one pollutant or virus could take out the whole thing. But if it's been there for that long, I think is should be good. 
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It's in Australia? Yeah, it's gonna try to kill you.
