160 million years ago, this fungus pierced trees like a microscopic spear

ScienceDaily
Jun 8, 2025, 7:17 am257 ptsTop
In a paper published in National Science Review, a Chinese team of scientists highlights the discovery of well-preserved blue-stain fungal hyphae within a Jurassic fossil wood from northeastern China, which pushes back the earliest known fossil record of this fungal group by approximately 80 million years. The…

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