ABBV - Scynexis And The Fungal Economy
Recently in the journal Nature, an article was published characterizing the oldest known example of a fungus. The organism, termed an Ourasphaira, was approximately one billion years old and was found in what was believed to be an ancient river bed in Canada. For comparison sake, the oldest living animal fossils are about 600 million years old.
Fungi are eukaryotic organisms just like animals and plants. This taxonomic kingdom exists with an impossibly vast number of varieties. Wrap your head around this for a moment, that it is estimated that there are at least