May 31 (Reuters) - You thought the living organism with ;/"he largest genome might be the blue whale, an African elephant or perhaps a giant redwood tree? Not even close. A human being? Wrong again.

A fern from a Pacific island carries 50 times as much DNA as humans do. Tmesipteris oblanceolata, a fern growing in a forest on an island east of Australia. “It doesn’t catch the eye,” said Jaume ...

Scientists just discovered the largest genome of any living thing on Earth, and it belongs to a small, unassuming fern called Tmesipteris oblanceolata. If you were to split open one of its cells and ...

A little plant, the New Caledonian fork fern species Tmesipteris oblanceolata has now taken the title of world's largest genome holder, according to a new study in iScience, and three new Guinness ...

A small, unassuming fern-like plant has something massive lurking within: the largest genome ever discovered, outstripping the human genome by more than 50 times 1. Study co-author Jaume Pellicer, an ...