How a Fungus and a Tree Translated Underground Hugeness to Mainstream Success

In the late 1980s, a couple of biologists working near a logging site in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula noticed that something was eating the trees. Though they quickly identified the culprit, a fungus called Armillaria bulbosa, attempts at further study led to a much crazier discovery—it wasn’t a bunch of smaller fungi chomping up the forest, but one enormous one. It seemed to be the largest underground organism on Earth, if not the biggest organism entirely. Until, of course, it wasn't.
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