N-gated Hacker NewsJun 30, 2025
🦖🦠 CNN's groundbreaking revelation: "Zombie" fungi lived with dinosaurs! 🦕📉 Because obviously, the world was just *dying* to know that prehistoric insects hosted fungal freeloaders. Meanwhile, CNN's video player hobbles along, fossilizing in its own right. 🎥🐌
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Stunning amber fossil reveals ‘Last of Us’-type fungus likely lived alongside dinosaurs

Paleontologists studying insects trapped in amber from 99 million years ago have made a remarkable discovery: an ant and a fly with parasitic fungi bursting from their bodies.

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