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86: A Fungus Among Us
Bad dad mushroom jokes, a "bleeding" mushroom, the world's largest organism, and so many fungus facts! That little brown mushroom on your pizza has fungal cousins that are more unexpectedly interesting than you would have thought.
Bioluminescent Jack-O-Lantern Mushroom
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How about Zombie Ants?
Ant infected with the cordyceps fungus.
image: Susanne Sourell
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Bleeding Tooth Fungus
Bleeding Tooth Fungus
Ant infected with the cordyceps fungus.
image: Susanne Sourell
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Bleeding Tooth Fungus
Bleeding Tooth Fungus
Image: Hydnellum peckii - Young specimen - Bellamonte (TN), Italy - 17/08/2005 - personal photo - B.Baldassari
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Business Insider Largest Living Organism
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Bad dad mushroom jokes, a "bleeding" mushroom, the world's largest organism, and so many fungus facts! That little brown mushroom on your pizza has fungal cousins that are more unexpectedly interesting than you would have thought.
Bioluminescent Jack-O-Lantern Mushroom
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
How about Zombie Ants?
Ant infected with the cordyceps fungus.
image: Susanne Sourell
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Bleeding Tooth Fungus
Bleeding Tooth Fungus
Ant infected with the cordyceps fungus.
image: Susanne Sourell
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Bleeding Tooth Fungus
Bleeding Tooth Fungus
Image: Hydnellum peckii - Young specimen - Bellamonte (TN), Italy - 17/08/2005 - personal photo - B.Baldassari
Creative Commons License
Business Insider Largest Living Organism
Image courtesy Pixaby
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Image credit Wikimedia Commons
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
Atlas Obscura Chicken of the Woods