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I'm confused by the "exclusively subsists on polyurethane" and "scientists recently found a fungus in the Amazonian rainforest"... TIL there's a bunch of polyur
by zellyn 15y ago
I'm confused by the "exclusively subsists on polyurethane" and "scientists recently found a fungus in the Amazonian rainforest"... TIL there's a bunch of polyurethane in the Amazonian rainforest?
- blacksmith_tb 15y agoThat caught my eye, too. Rather than having evolved to eat polyurethane only, and then waiting patiently for us to arrive with dinner, I took this to be an awkward way of reiterating that the fungus is the only organism we know of that can eat PU. Which does make me wonder a bit about what it normally eats - resins?
- JonnieCache 15y agoI read it as "capable of subsisting on polyurethane only" in the lab.