Scientists find 99 million-year-old zombie fungus in very rare fossils from the dinosaur era
Scientists have discovered an extraordinary rare fossil "zombie mushroom", with 99 million years ago at the age of dinosaurs. Protected in Burmese amber, uncover sample ancient correlation between parasitic fungi and insects. This fungus, which infects and controls its insect host, was found to be connected to the body of a fly similar to the modern today's opochemis, and shows how it eventually manipulates the host's behavior before he killed it. Fossils provide valuable insight into the development of parasitic fungi and their ecological roles during the Cracheus period. Protected fungal structures, including stalks and spores, indicate a complex transitional system, which is currently observed in Zombie mushrooms that transform insect insects into ships that destroy. Researchers emphasized it as one of the oldest known examples of host -parasitic interactions, and emphasized how such conditions have affected the development of species over millions of years. Search is seen as an important peliomicological search.
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