HTTP:: Planet Wide Disaster Saw the Rise of Fungi
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Some 251.4 million years ago, a cataclysm destroyed most living things on our planet, including microorganisms, plants, and higher animals. Informally known as The Great Dying, the Permianâ€"Triassic (Pâ€"Tr) extinction event was the most severe battering the Earth had ever faced during its five cataclysmic extinctions. Now, new research suggests that this post-apocalyptic world provided some fungi with the most appropriate conditions to multiply and spread throughout the globe, feasting on what remained after the nature took its course, ScienceNow reports. Reduviasporonites is a genus of microorganisms that was first tested in 1996. At the time, experts established that they were fungi, but subsequent investigations hinted that they might be a form of algae. It was only recently that members of an international team settled this debate, when they concluded that the organism, which is commonly found in the P-Tr boundary layer, was a fungus. Additionally, the panel's resea!
rch also brought up an interesting fact â€" the fungus' diet mainly consisted of dead trees. Planetary scientists say that this bit of information may lead them to determine the exact cause of the Third Extinction, for which one is still elusive. When looking at the chemical footprint of Reduviasporonites, the researchers paid...
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