The 7 Most Terrifyingly Huge Things in the History of Nature

[Kain]

Originally Posted by Sogelec

and #1 is Fouad el Sanioura

The article is about huge things not huge pansies

[SysTaMatIcS]

Originally Posted by Kain

It's tamed since it's zoo bred; that and it's sterile as it's the offspring of two different species Very few (if any) interspecies offspring are capable of reproducing.


Naaah i think it's cute as a button

why isnt it possible for humans to mate with other animals , imagine what would we have if we mate with a lion

[Kain]

#2.Sperm 20 Times the Size of the Creature it Comes From

Wait, why is a fruit fly on this list? We have giant predators ripped from the terror center of the brain, and we're including the little bastards you have to shoo away from your bananas? Well, it's not the fruit fly that's terrifyingly huge. Let's just say the fly is packing some serious heat in the downstairs region.

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Ew.

We really can't figure out a way to make it sound less weird so we'll just say it: It has giant sperm. This next image is in no way edited or Photoshopped -- it's a scale picture. Fly in the center, its sperm looped around it:

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That's not a sperm, that's a freaking bullwhip.

Now the fact that somewhere out there is a creature that has to force out a sperm many times as long as its body is terrifying in itself. But we're just scratching the surface.
After all, you figure that surely the female must be a huge hulking example of the species to even be able to fit a sperm longer than the freaking male of the species inside of ... oh we can't even finish this sentence it's just too weird. Show the damn picture.

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How do they even do it?!?!!?

Just what -- that ... holy crap, how does that even ... wait ... it's longer than the female too so that must mean... the female of the species has an equally as long and terrifying reproductive tract. So all you guys and ladies reading this, just imagine being a fruit fly and consider that a six-foot-tall male would have a sperm 120-feet long. If your brain has rightly prevented that image from entering your mind, take a look here.

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About yey High

(Tomorrow: #1. A Fungus the Size of a Small Airport]

[Kain]

#1.A Fungus the Size of a Small Airport

Picture a fungus. Maybe you have some growing in your basement.

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Awww, it's so cute!

Now picture Central Park in New York.

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Awww, it's so cute!

Now imagine a single fungus as big as three Central Parks.


It totally exists.


Now, this is somewhat difficult to wrap your head around, since we typically think of a living thing as being a single entity, like a dog or a burrito. And since not everyone is a Star Trek: The Next Generation fan and thus doesn't have the Borg to fall back on when the word "collective" is thrown around, we'll explain.


When you see mushrooms, you're not seeing the whole organism. The fungus spreads underground, sending out roots that grow up into mushrooms here and there.

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So, scientists discovered that honey mushrooms growing in a forest in eastern Oregon were genetically identical. Once they began probing around they discovered that the mycelia -- the roots of the fungus, which also make up most for the actual living fungus -- was spread over an area covering 2,200 acres, or about 3.5 square miles. It's a single living thing, but it'd take you more than half an hour to walk from one end of it to the other.

That's enough to cover most of this section of New York City.

And that's actually not the strangest thing about it.


The fungus is believed to be about 2,400-years old. Yep. It has outlasted the Romans and was devouring dead rodents before Jesus was said to be turning bread into fish.
Though there may be one life form more impressive than that: the Pando tree grove. It's one tree, sprouting out multiple trunks all connected by the same mass of roots. But it covers 107 acres and fills an astonishing 6,615 tons of mass.

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All one tree.

That's the equivalent of 33 blue whales, or 76,492 adult human men. Oh, and it's thought to be 80,000-years old. Entire species came into existence and died off in this thing's lifespan. Mankind's entire rise and fall as an advanced civilization is a blink in Pando's eye.


And yet, all we can think about is that giant fly sperm.

Ahhhhhhhhhh!

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