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Mammals Are Not Fungi

Mammals are not fungi, so how does that tie into their existence? Well, it goes like this. The fungi come in everything from a mushroom to microscopic. Many of them are pathogenic. They are the main pasages of plants. But most fungi cannot tolerate higher temperatures. So you would have had ma sive fungal proliferation in this cold, damp planet. And organisms to survive would have been exposed to massive amounts of fungus force.

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