A small fern species, Tmesipteris oblanceolata, found in the South Pacific islands of New Caledonia, now holds the record for the largest known genome.New research reveals that the fern’s genome ...

New research has identified the largest known genome of any living organism in an unassuming fern found in New Caledonia, an island chain in the South Pacific Ocean. The rare plant contains 160 ...

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, seemingly unremarkable fern that only grows on a remote Pacific island was on Friday crowned the Guinness World Record holder for having the largest genome of any organism on Earth.

In addition, the plant has achieved three Guinness World Records titles for Largest plant genome, Largest Genome, and Largest fern genome for the amount of DNA in the nucleus. T. oblanceolata is a ...

(jacqui-nz on iNaturalist/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) PARIS (AFP) — A small, seemingly unremarkable fern that only grows on a remote Pacific island was on Friday crowned the Guinness World ...

Big things can sometimes come in small packages. A small fern has broken the record for the largest genome yet known, researchers report May 31 in iScience. The plant’s full set of genetic ...

Ferns are known among scientists for having particularly large genomes. Pol Fernandez Researchers have discovered the largest genome of any known organism. The new champion, a small, unassuming ...

The little fern's genome is about 6,000% bigger than that of a blue whale, Earth's largest animal, and about 4,650% bigger than that of an African elephant, the largest land animal. It also is ...

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 ...