Giant 65-million-year-old fungus "D-rex" found in China

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorScientists in China have found a giant fungus that grows up to twenty inches tall and weighs nearly five pounds, the largest known of its kind, ScienceDaily reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNearly five pounds. That's a bag of flour with a hat.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's growing from the roots of Chinese cork oak trees in Yunnan province, and its family line goes back about sixty-five million years.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSixty-five million years, one million after the dinosaurs went. And it only turned up in the surveys in twenty twenty-four and twenty twenty-five.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe old record was a foot shorter. Nobody spotted a twenty-inch fungus.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt's called D-rex, after the T. rex. A fungus with a stage name.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe researchers say there's a lot of fungus in East Asian forests still to be found. So this may not be the biggest.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo the real number to worry about is how many bigger ones are standing behind it, and nobody's checked behind it.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's been there sixty-five million years, Dale. It can wait for the fence.