The Craziest Fungi On Earth Today

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Some are tasty, some can kill you, and did you know that some have the power to trick animals into caring for them? Welcome to the world of Mushrooms. Join Michael Aranda for a new episode of SciShow where we'll put the fun in fungi! SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1560272/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982208015467 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232694696_Distribution_and_Phylogenetic_Analysis_of_Termite_Egg-Mimicking_Fungi_Termite_Balls_in_Reticulitermes_Termites https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/by-looking-carefully-japanese-scientist-discovers-the-secrets-of-termite-balls/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000813 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1046/j.1440-1703.2000.00361.x Special thanks to Dr. David Moore https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/nature/the-bleeding-tooth-fungus.aspx https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1468164110604641 https://www.plantlife.org.uk/application/files/6714/8241/0023/Scotlands_rare_tooth_fungi_mgt_guide_FINAL_PDF_lr.pdf http://website.nbm-mnb.ca/mycologywebpages/NaturalHistoryOfFungi/ToothFungi.html https://www.wired.com/2013/02/guttation/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311612950_Mycorrhiza_The_Oldest_Association_Between_Plant_and_Fungi/figures http://www.davidmoore.org.uk/21st_Century_Guidebook_to_Fungi_PLATINUM/REPRINT_collection/Michelot_etal_A.muscaria_chemistry_biology_toxicology.pdf https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11356-018-2603-0.pdf https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/ethnobotany/Mind_and_Spirit/flyagaric.shtml https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/29741535 http://www.einstein.yu.edu/uploadedFiles/casadevall/Dadachovaionizing.pdf http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/white-t2/ https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Dark+power%3A+pigment+seems+to+put+radiation+to+good+use.-a0164559476 https://academic.oup.com/femsle/article/281/2/109/474059/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000457 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0048674 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1753889 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651399918481 https://www.mushroomexpert.com/phallaceae.html https://link.springer.com/article/10.1046/j.1440-1703.1998.00241.x https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=90951&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=5&unlock https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/06/country-diary-stinkhorn-fungus-phallus-impudicus https://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/2015/02/18/an-unlikely-delicacy-the-basket-stinkhorn/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281146648_Hericium_erinaceus_an_amazing_medicinal_mushroom https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2221169117310390#bib22 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312205756_Structures_biological_activities_and_industrial_applications_of_the_polysaccharides_from_Hericium_erinaceus_Lion's_Mane_mushroom_A_review https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ptr.2634 https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2019/7861297/ Images: shorturl.at/qvP78 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Athelia_rolfsii_sclerotia.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Inonotus_obliquus.jpg shorturl.at/kopY2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hydnellum_peckii2.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hydnellum_peckii_62842.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hydnellum_peckii.darvin.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mushroom_in_the_Hills_of_Adelaide.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fliegenpilz_fly_agaric_Amanita_muscaria.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Amanita_muscaria_Marriott_Falls_1.jpg shorturl.at/fmGJO https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chernobyl_NPP_01-2009.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hericium_erinaceus_2.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Igelstachelbart,_Hericium_erinaceus.jpg