A fern found on the island of New Caledonia in the Southwest Pacific is only a few inches tall. But its DNA is made up of 160.45 billion base pairs—50 times more than the human genome.

A Tiny Fern Has The Largest Genome Ever Discovered

The little fern from New Caledonia is just a few inches tall, and its genome has 160.45 billion base pairs—50 times more DNA than a human.

The planet is getting ready to replace us, isn’t it?

Is that like finding a GIF with enough data to fill the Library of Congress? If you subscribe to the alien ant farm of our origin you might look in that for a message.