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And it’s that beautifully animated, glowing blue fungi that tie the show together.

Much as humans eat food off dishes instead of eating the dishes themselves, bacteria and fungi choose to eat organic matter like leaves over biochar.

A different descendant of that common ancestor went on to give rise to all animals and fungi.

Since 2000 they have used public sightings of plants, animals and fungi to log the effects of weather and climate on nature.

But it wasn’t psilocybin, the psychedelic drug in so-called “magic” mushrooms, but instead the world’s most charismatic fungi, the red and white fly agaric mushroom, known to scientists as Amanita muscaria.