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Fantastic Fungi

It's 113 million years old and it's a perfectly shapedmushroom

It's 113 million years old and it's a perfectly shaped
mushroom

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It's 113 million years old
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and it's a perfectly shaped mushroom.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
43
Timestamp in Movie
00:16:53
Uploaded
Jun 13, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Artemis Rising,Diamond Docs,Moving Art

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Fantastic Fungi is a descriptive time-lapse journey about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago.
We divided from fungi about 650 million years ago. - Fantastic Fungi 00:06
We divided from fungi about 650 million years ago.
The other branch led to animals. - Fantastic Fungi 00:04
The other branch led to animals.
We chose a path of encirculating our nutrients in sort of a sac, the stomach. - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
We chose a path of encirculating our nutrients in sort of a ...
The mycelium remained underground, - Fantastic Fungi 00:06
The mycelium remained underground,
Until we had these great cataclysmic extinction events, - Fantastic Fungi 00:08
Until we had these great cataclysmic extinction events,
From these extinction events, there's one lesson. - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
From these extinction events, there's one lesson.
Those organisms that paired with fungi survived. - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
Those organisms that paired with fungi survived.
We are more closely related to fungi - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
We are more closely related to fungi
What this means is that we are descendants of mycelium. - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
What this means is that we are descendants of mycelium.
Mycelium is the mother of us all - Fantastic Fungi 00:04
Mycelium is the mother of us all
Living creatures like fungi are intelligent - Fantastic Fungi 00:09
Living creatures like fungi are intelligent
They solve problems, and that's intelligence. - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
They solve problems, and that's intelligence.
A mycelium can theoretically live forever - Fantastic Fungi 00:13
A mycelium can theoretically live forever
It lives on top of a mountain in Oregon. - Fantastic Fungi 00:04
It lives on top of a mountain in Oregon.
It's like thousands of acres, - Fantastic Fungi 00:04
It's like thousands of acres,
The mushroom is the organ of sexual reproduction - Fantastic Fungi 00:09
The mushroom is the organ of sexual reproduction
The spores are extremely tiny, - Fantastic Fungi 00:09
The spores are extremely tiny,
When they land on something they can eat, - Fantastic Fungi 00:13
When they land on something they can eat,
The mushroom releases zillions of spores into the atmosphere. - Fantastic Fungi 00:07
The mushroom releases zillions of spores into the atmosphere...
So they are everywhere. We've evolved with them. - Fantastic Fungi 00:05
So they are everywhere. We've evolved with them.