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One of the workers in The Penguin drug lab explains that the white mushroom, oozing little red dots on its cap is a basidiospore – reproductive cells produced by a fungus, in this case a mushroom – ...

The rounded, blunt teeth are an inch long and designed for crushing hard-shelled prey. “These structures with their mushroom ...