![]() ![]() The discovery that it connects plants in large collaborative networks, the 'Wood Wide Web', is transforming our understanding of how non-animal life works. It can solve problems without a brain, stretching traditional definitions of 'intelligence', and can manipulate animal behaviour in astonishing and often unsettling ways that we struggle to explain. It can survive unprotected in space, and thrives amidst nuclear radiation. Its ability to digest rock enabled the first life on land, and for 40 million years its towering structures dominated earth's landscape. ![]() It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organism ever recorded – covering ten square kilometres, weighing 35,000 tons and estimated to be over 2,000 years old. Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. ![]()
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