Now, the larger specimens of marimo balls remain in Lake Akan alone. Because of the global die-off of the species and the desire to preserve the remaining specimens in Lake Akan, a team of ...

Marimo are living fluffy balls of green algae and the world’s largest marimo can be found in Lake Akan in Hokkaido, Japan’s northern main island. They are sheltered from too much winter ...

Marimo are living fluffy balls of green algae. The world's largest marimo can be found in Lake Akan in Hokkaido, Japan's northern main island. Here they are sheltered from too much winter sunlight ...

Marimo are recognized as a national treasure in Japan where they have been a protected species since 1920, and their home, Lake Akan, has been designated a national park. Normally, this algae ...

“These results suggest that photoinhibition - the inability to photosynthesize due to cell damage - would be a serious threat to marimo in Lake Akan.” He stated the lake receives more than 10 ...

Japanese botanist, Takuya Kawakami, from the Sapporo Agricultural College (now Hokkaido University) first discovered the green algae aggregates in the bay of Lake Akan and named them "marimo" in 1897.

Hokkaido’s Lake Akan has been declared a national park in order to safeguard the lake's marimo colony. The marimo themselves are bigger than basketballs and hundreds of years old. More than ...

The marimo is the aggregative form of the freshwater alga Aegagropila linnaei. In Japan, Lake Akan in Hokkaido is the best known habitat of the marimo. It is so emblematic of the lake and ...

There are only two known places in the world where marimo grow into spheres over 10cm in diameter; Lake Mývatn in Iceland and Lake Akan in Hokkaido, Japan. However, it was reported in 2013 that ...

Discover spherical algae balls, majestic sea eagles, giant salamanders and more in Akan-Mashu National Park and Daisen-Oki. In winter, red-crowned cranes can be seen performing a bonding dance in ...