Fungi often go unnoticed beneath forest floors, lawns and fallen leaves, yet their underground threads help recycle nutrients and support healthy ecosystems. The mushrooms we see are only the fruiting bodies of much larger organisms. They appear briefly, release spores, then disappear from sight. Unlike plants, fungi belong to a kingdom of their own. Some species even glow, while others form partnerships with trees.
Horsehair parachute fungus, Belarus
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A male chaffinch in a crab apple tree
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Ring of Brodgar, Orkney, Scotland
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Medieval towers in Mestia, Upper Svaneti, Georgia
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Saint-Pierre-Quiberon, France
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Fujian Tulou, China
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Male bearded reedling, Norfolk, England
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Mount Hamilton, San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
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Aerial view of Venice, Italy
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Sea otter, Glacier Bay, Alaska
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European fallow deer, England
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Scotts Bluff National Monument
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Coll dAres, Catalan Pyrenees
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Great Wall of China
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Ammonite fossil from Madagascar
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Val di Funes, South Tyrol, Italy
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Juvenile manatees in a freshwater spring, Crystal River, Florida
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Large anvil clouds, Amazon, Brazil
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Wood duck, Quebec, Canada
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Redwood National and State Parks, California, United States
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Short-eared owl
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Eurasian red squirrel
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