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Mushroom
Period: Cretaceous
Age: 100 million years
Region: Burma
Mushrooms are generally regarded as plants but they do not actually produce their own nutrients,
obtaining them instead by breaking down materials in other organisms. They are fungi.
There are thought to be some 1.5 million species of mushroom on Earth, of which only 69,000 have
so far been described.
Mushrooms are of great importance since they break down plant and animal structures and relea-
se the free elements inside them. Mushrooms emit carbon dioxide and thereby make the soil sui-
table for the growth of plants. Mushrooms were just as useful 100 million years ago, and mushro-
oms living today have exactly the same characteristics and uses. Of course, they did not acquire
these by way of evolution. They were created with these features from the very first moment.
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