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it's wednesday june first twenty twenty. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, a new contender for the world's

largest plant is bigger than Cincinnati and named after Poseidon. Plus, a roundup of everything

launching into space this weekend, and fresh on the heels of the new Boslerman

Biopic, the company that owns Elvis's likeness is trying to shut down all the Elvis-themed

wedding chapels in Vegas. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

The world's largest plant has been discovered, and it is a 4,500-year-old self-cloning underwater seagrass,

the size of Cincinnati and dubbed Poseidon's Ribbon Weed.

I mean, it really didn't have to go so hard. Being the biggest would have been cool enough.

Now, we've known that meadows of this seagrass, formerly called Posidonia Australis, have long

carpeted the ocean floor in Shark Bay off the western tip of Australia. But until a recent DNA analysis,

led by Jane Edglo, and published this week in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B,

we didn't know that a lot of what we thought were different plants were in fact one giant singular

plant, 77 square miles of one plant. And not only that, but some bits of the seagrass that

aren't connected due to severed roots are still genetically identical to one another, suggesting that they were once part of the whole.

The researchers from the University of Western Australia wrote in the conversation yesterday, quote,

We collected shoot samples from 10 seagrass meadows from across shark bay in waters where the salt levels range

from normal ocean salinity to almost twice as salty. And in all samples, we studied 18,000

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