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Fungi take up more mass than people—see how they stretch across the Earth (www.nationalgeographic.com)
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Scientists created the first-ever map of this vast underground fungal network and found it could stretch to the sun and back more than a billion times.

Global topsoils hold an estimated 110 quadrillion kilometers of fungal network, a distance equivalent to traveling to the sun and back a billion times.

The study: Global density and biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks

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[–] 1 point 4 months ago

Hmm perhaps, although I still wouldn't expect the border to be so well visible on the map. Because diffusion doesn't know political borders

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