Mushrooms are the most famous type of fungi, but they are not the fungus itself, but rather the fruit that the fungus produces. The real fungus lives underground, a unique life that is unlike the life of plants or animals, which prompted scientists to classify it within an independent kingdom of life. For a long time, this kingdom was marginalized and its role was limited to being merely pathogens. However, the world of fungi expands to reveal enormous potential that may contribute to saving humanity and achieving a sustainable future. So what is the nature of these fungi? What do they feed on? And how do they live? This is what we will discover in this episode of #AlDaheeh Sources: The earth's secret miracle worker is not a plant or an animal: it's fungi Giuliana Furci The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentis... Fungi Are Responsible For Life On Land As We Know It Nature of Things https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/fea... Don't Fear Fungi Despite 'The Last of Us' TIME https://time.com/6256252/fungi-scienc... The Zombie Fungus Takes Over Ants' Bodies to Control Their Minds - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/a... 'Dark Fungi' Species Don't Get Names. Should They? https://www.sciencefriday.com/segment... Stephen Axford: How fungi changed my view of the world - YouTube • Stephen Axford: How fungi changed my ... White Rot Fungi Slowed Coal Formation Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar... Fungi's Resilience and Intelligence - YouTube • Fungi's Resilience and Intelligence Magic Mushrooms, Fungi, and The Mysterious Kingdom with Merlin Sheldrake - Cosmic Queries - YouTube • Magic Mushrooms, Fungi, and The Myste... Some fungi trade phosphorus with plants like savvy stockbrokers https://www.sciencenews.org/article/s... How mushrooms clean up the planet (and other fungi powers ). https://www.nature.com/articles/nmicr... What is a fungal spore? Britannica https://www.britannica.com/question/W... Study: Underground Fungal Relationships Key to Thriving Plants - News https://news.utk.edu/2019/10/28/study... This fungus has wiped out more species than any other disease Science AAAS https://www.science.org/content/artic... Slime mold knows the way out of Ikea! Friends of the Box-Ironbark Forests https://www.fobif.org.au/2021/08/slim... Stoned Ape Theory: Magic Mushrooms and Human Evolution HowStuffWorks https://science.howstuffworks.com/lif... They eat rocks. They're some of the strangest living beings on the planet. They are fungi. - WPR https://www.wpr.org/environment/they-... Ferocious fungus – School of Biological Sciences https://www.biology.utah.edu/eeob/fer... Psilocybin and psilocin (Magic mushrooms) - Canada.ca https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canad... Prehistoric High Times: Early Humans Used Magic Mushrooms, Opium Live Science https://www.livescience.com/49666-pre... • We Can't Find Most Of The World's Fungi https://britishlichensociety.org.uk/l...