"And particularly it's exciting because it's a plant.” New research shows that the genome size of this fork fern species… is estimated to be more than 50 times the size of a human genome. :: Ilia ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

In the Panamanian rainforest, scientists found the first known plant species to transform decaying tissue into a new source of nutrients. By Douglas Main In the rainforests of western Panama, the ...