Depending on your definition, the Earth features many "biggest" living things. Today we're looking at where they stack up ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

On the slope of a Utah mountain, lives the world's oldest living organism. It has lived there for thousands of years, living in harmony with the natural world around it, but today it is being slowly ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The largest living thing on the planet is not a whale or any other animal you might expect. It is a giant fungus that kills anything in its path, currently taking ...

The largest living thing on the planet is not a whale or any other animal you might expect. It is a giant fungus that kills anything in its path, currently taking up more than three square miles ...

When you think of the world’s largest organism ... challenges our very definition of what it means to be a single living being. Incidentally, its name comes from the Latin word Pando, meaning ...