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laodan discovered 22 months ago- Thy Name is Mushroom in the Loom by Carl Zimmer The funny thing about fungi is that while they may seem alien, they're actually relatively close kin. A stinkhorn is more closely related to you than it is to a skunk cabbage. Animals and fungi share a common ancestor that was probably a single-celled protozoan, which probably swam around in water with whip-like tails called flagella. Some of those protozoans later began to live in colonies, which later gave rise to multicellular animals. Other protozoans gave rise to the fungi. URL: Thy Name is Mushroom URL: The early evolution of Fungi URL: The fungi photo catalog
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Don't you like mushrooms? Well I do like to eat some of them but discovering them is one of my greatest pleasures.
- Thy Name is Mushroom in the Loom by Carl Zimmer The funny thing about fungi is that while they may seem alien, they're actually relatively close kin. A stinkhorn is more closely related to you than it is to a skunk cabbage. Animals and fungi share a common ancestor that was probably a single-celled protozoan, which probably swam around in water with whip-like tails called flagella. Some of those protozoans later began to live in colonies, which later gave rise to multicellular animals. Other protozoans gave rise to the fungi. URL: Thy Name is Mushroom URL: The early evolution of Fungi URL: The fungi photo catalog
- katiefa rated 22 months ago
- Great science blog in general, and here's a fabulous post on Stinkhorns-- which are, of course, stinky and phallic-- but some of them are really, really gorgeous. They're actually some of my favorite fungi to find, if only because they're so unlike the common Agaric-type 'shrooms. Plus, the eggs make good eatin'. (But don't do it unless you know what you're looking for: as the saying goes-- There are old mushroom hunters; There are bold mushroom hunters; But there are no old, bold mushroom hunters.)
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