The first edition of the game, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, was published in 1987. Game designer Rick Priestley created the original rules set (based on the contemporary second edition of Warhammer Fantasy Battle) alongside the Warhammer 40,000 gameworld.
The largest living thing on Earth is a humongous fungus. Forget blue whales and giant redwood trees. Italian chef Antonio Carluccio says it is delicious with spaghetti and red chilli. But to gardeners it is a menace that threatens their hedges, roses and rhododendrons.
The Quaking Aspen grove is the largest organism on earth because its roots resurface, creating new trees What is the largest living thing? Not animal, but living organism? The biggest living thing is not, in fact, an animal at all, but a plant. The Quaking Aspen forest holds the record. The Quaking Aspen sends out underground shoots that re-emerge elsewhere as new trunks.