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Like many of you, I follow the page "I fucking love science" on facebook. This caught my eye, had a quick read through the link and sounded pretty cool. Obviously it reminded me of Zangarmarsh instantly. What the article says isn't set in stone exactly (well, excluding the fossil was for millions of years...) and there's no confirmation they were giant shrooms but there appears to be some thought about it. Seems pretty cool to me, thought you guys might like it
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smar...ant-mushrooms/
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2013-11-30, 05:16 PM #1Titan
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Zangarmarsh in real life
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2013-11-30, 05:18 PM #2High Overlord
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I read this last night, definitely an awesome read and if there were a real life Zangarmarsh, I sure as shit would want to see it.
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2013-11-30, 05:20 PM #3The Insane
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Hmm - doesnt mushrooms leech off of others? How can it grow so large with so little other biomass?
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2013-11-30, 05:34 PM #4Deleted
Malaria...
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2013-11-30, 05:40 PM #5Titan
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Thinking back to A level Biology now so like 2 years, if these things were as large as they were then Saprotrophic Nutrition probably played a role. Due to the low Surface Area : Volume ratio it wouldn't have possibly been the main source of nutrition. Maybe it was carnivorous...? Also the possibility that multiple mushrooms were connected in the same way that giant one is that covers 2200 acres or something ridiculous - a huge connected network. Originally Posted by Cattaclysmic
There's also nothing to say that these fungi looked anything like what we would imagine when we think of fungi today, especially large ones. They could have been a rather different structure, it's like 400million years ago this is estimated to have been, and evolution will have changed things quite a bit.http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...nicus/advanced
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2013-11-30, 05:49 PM #7Banned
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life is so unfair... why can't this shit be around now? it's just not fair >: (
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2013-11-30, 05:49 PM #8Titan
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Because if it was, you probably wouldn't be here Originally Posted by derpkitteh
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2013-11-30, 05:50 PM #9Deleted
A reconstruction image of a follow up article.
Not looking like mushrooms we think of at least
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2013-11-30, 05:52 PM #10Titan
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How phallic.
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2013-11-30, 06:32 PM #11The Unstoppable Force
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Imagine those shrooms having psychedelic effects how yummi.
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