Brain Junk

Bad dad mushroom jokes, a “bleeding” mushroom, the world’s largest organism, and so many fungus facts! That little brown mushroom on your pizza has fungal cousins that are more unexpectedly interesting than you would have thought.Bioluminescent Jack-O-Lantern Mushroomhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcodeHow about Zombie Ants?Ant infected with the cordyceps fungus.image: Susanne Sourell https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcodeBleeding Tooth FungusBleeding Tooth FungusImage: Hydnellum peckii – Young specimen – Bellamonte (TN), Italy – 17/08/2005 – personal photo – B.BaldassariCreative Commons License Business Insider Largest Living OrganismImage courtesy Pixabyhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode Image credit Wikimedia Commonshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcodeAtlas Obscura Chicken of the Woods This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit brainjunkpodcast.subst