Ancient fungal family traced to Asia, eight new species named

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's nine o'clock Eastern, this is No Bull with Hank, and tonight, folks, I want to talk about a mushroom family that is doing better than you.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTalking point number one. Scientists traced an ancient fungal family back to Asia, and they say it started forty-nine million years ago.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorForty-nine million years, and not one pivot.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTalking point number two. Think about what has happened since then. Empires, ice ages, and the invention of the group chat.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThis family sat through all of it and kept going.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI can't keep a quarterly plan going for forty-nine days.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI've watched a team lunch order fall apart in under ten minutes, and that was only sandwiches.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTalking point number three. The researchers also named eight new species. Eight.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThis family has been quietly minding its own business since before we had words, and the first thing we did was hand it labels.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorEight names it never asked for. Here's the thing they won't say: nobody has ever offered this family a podcast, and it's still thriving.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorForty-nine million years, no rebrand, and we gave it a name tag. That's tonight's show.

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