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A emu egg (left) next to a cassowary egg (right). They are some of the largest bird eggs on the planet.
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They are also single frigging cells. Yet, they have nothing on the largest unicellular organisms, size-wise.
Good grief, just tell us the size. I skimmed the article and is none the wiser.
The biggest single-celled organism in the world is structured in the same way: an aquatic alga called Caulerpa taxifolia, which can grow to 30cm long. https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2019/04/this-bizarre-bubble-creature-is-a-single-living-cell/