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Meet ‘D. Rex,’ the Monster Fungus Born in the Wake of the Dinosaur Apocalypse


Scientists just found a record-setting new fungal species, the largest now known in the sprawling Ascomycota phylum. It may have feasted off dying forests during the Chicxulub mass extinction event.

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