Episode 12 - Prehisporical Morel Dilemma

Since their emergence hundreds of million years ago, fungi have been helping shape the world we know. Their hyphal history has intertwined with the creation of the first soil and the evolution of the first plants. Izzie recounts the history of fungi as we know it, as well as the history of paleomycology – the study of fossil fungi – and one particularly captivating and bizarre fossil from the early days of land colonization.