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Re:Amber insect fossils reveal "zombie" fungi likely lived a... by pabs3 on Monday June 30, 2025 @05:23AM (#44421171)
My favourite tree evolution thing is the forests in the Galapagos being evolved from dandelion seeds blown in on the wind from South America.
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Re:Amber insect fossils reveal "zombie" fungi likely lived a... by BitwiseFool on Monday June 30, 2025 @12:08PM (#44424930)
Fascinating. Do you have a link to that, or the name of that species?
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Re:Amber insect fossils reveal "zombie" fungi likely lived a... by h1c on Monday June 30, 2025 @03:44PM (#44427087)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalesia
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Re:Amber insect fossils reveal "zombie" fungi likely lived a... by pabs3 on Monday June 30, 2025 @10:52PM (#44430135)
I heard about it on the David Attenborough's Galapagos series:

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/david-attenborough-s-galapagos

Here is a YouTube playlist, I think it was episode 3, Evolution:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3iXsS5tZSZG4gcYrblBd...

Also see the wiki page mentioned in the sibling comment.

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