Check out Fantastic Fungi as well. I believe they touched on this subject too. Not to mention, the camera work was phenomenal. (I got to see some of the early time lapse footage as my brother contributed to that film.)

The way fungi has developed over the last 650 million years is crazy and it’s super interesting. It is, by far, one of the most resilient forms of life on earth. Also, even though there has been a lot of research, we are only starting to scratch the surface about the importance of fungi in our daily lives.

While I started growing magic mushrooms for fun, I have started digging deeper into mycology in its entirety and it is a super fascinating subject.

Do a broad search on Lemmy (or scour my profile) for most of the budding mycology communities if you are interested. They are slow for now, but there are plenty of lurkers that will answer questions or chat if prompted.

What is this low-effort crap? Why are we posting Google searches in the science community!? Could this not just be a sticky post or something for the sidebar?

‘be kind’ is more a reminder for myself to follow the golden rule. this NOVA episode has been airing on my OTA DTV PBS channel 1. I’m assuming it is based on science but haven’t verified it’s sources. Yet another fascinating subject I’ll never have time to study. Presents some interesting theories about plant, fungi cooperation that got me googling(this post). It is currently airing on my local TV channel and like most things on PBS is free to watch online: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/ancient-earth-life-rising/ click ‘no thanks’ unless you want to subscribe. I use ad blockers so don’t know if they run ads. appears to have analytics by default. btw, wtf is up w/this group? https://lemmy.world/c/pbs tried to post there and it timed out I guess