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Re:Pando, the Most Massive Organism on Earth, Is Shrinking by briankelly on Friday October 19, 2018 @01:10PM (#18258180)
In this case, the title is exact in a subtle way: Pando is the largest known organism by mass, but there are only estimates on the mass of the fungal colony.
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Re:Pando, the Most Massive Organism on Earth, Is Shrinking by blacksmith_tb on Friday October 19, 2018 @01:42PM (#18258464)
Sure, though it isn't like we've weighed Pando either - I would say we just have better estimates of its mass (and of course "largest" is ambiguous as to whether it means area or mass here).
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Re:Pando, the Most Massive Organism on Earth, Is Shrinking by briankelly on Friday October 19, 2018 @02:25PM (#18258821)
Right, but both the title and the body of the article use the unambiguous "most massive" not "largest."
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