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Many puffball fungi, including the Tulostoma species, have lost the ability to forcibly discharge the spores themselves, relying instead on mechanical pressure—such as trampling by animals or ...

In many ways, we’re all just fungi exploding in the rain. Like puffballs, all men are given life, then grow round and, in the end, shoot out a giant cloud of mustard-colored spores.

The subterranean fungi known as truffles are best known as human delicacy, often sniffed out with the help of trained pigs or dogs.But it turns out these shrooms are popular outside the mammalian ...