Largest organisms
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The largest organisms found on Earth can be determined according to various aspects of organism size, such as: mass, volume, area, length, height, or even genome size. Some organisms group together to form a superorganism, but such are not classed as single large organisms. The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest structure composed of living entities, stretching 2,000 km, but contains many organisms of many species. The organism sizes listed are frequently considered "outsized" and are not in the normal size range for the respective species.
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See also
- Charismatic megafauna
- Deep-sea gigantism
- Genome size
- Giant animal
- Island gigantism
- Largest body part
- Largest prehistoric animals
- List of long-living organisms
- Lists of organisms by population
- Megafauna
- Smallest organisms
- Giant crab
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