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The Magic of Mushrooms

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The Evolution of Fungi

There are vast fossils, a whole lineage of life called prototaxitis. People have speculated for a long time about what they actually were. Katie: I like to think of it from the fungus's point of view. So when I see a big tree,. I think of the big tree as the fungus's sort of prosthesis... The Merlin was just saying that suddenly a wood or a tree or those things around us where there might be life is perhaps even invisible.

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