{"id":161456,"date":"2023-04-02T20:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T01:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/scientists-baffled-by-new-size-of-life-discovery-about-our-planets-biomass"},"modified":"2023-04-02T20:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T01:22:21","slug":"scientists-baffled-by-new-size-of-life-discovery-about-our-planets-biomass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/scientists-baffled-by-new-size-of-life-discovery-about-our-planets-biomass","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Baffled by New \u201cSize of Life\u201d Discovery About Our Planet\u2019s Biomass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-baffled-by-new-size-of-life-discovery-about-our-planets-biomass2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Life comes in all shapes in sizes, but some sizes are more popular than others, new research from the University of British Columbia (UBC) has found.<\/p>\n<p>In the first study of its kind published today (March 29) in <em>PLOS ONE<\/em>, Dr. Eden Tekwa, who conducted the study as a postdoctoral fellow at UBC\u2019s department of zoology, surveyed the body sizes of all Earth\u2019s living organisms, and uncovered an unexpected pattern. Contrary to what current theories can explain, our planet\u2019s biomass\u2014the material that makes up all living organisms\u2014is concentrated in organisms at either end of the size spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe smallest and largest organisms significantly outweigh all other organisms,\u201d said Dr. Tekwa<em>,<\/em> lead author of \u201cThe size of life,\u201d and now a research associate with McGill University\u2019s department of biology. \u201cThis seems like a new and emerging pattern that needs to be explained, and we don\u2019t have theories for how to explain it right now. Current theories predict that biomass would be spread evenly across all body sizes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life comes in all shapes in sizes, but some sizes are more popular than others, new research from the University of British Columbia (UBC) has found. In the first study of its kind published today (March 29) in PLOS ONE, Dr. Eden Tekwa, who conducted the study as a postdoctoral fellow at UBC\u2019s department of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}