Much of life on Earth is connected by a vast, hidden network that we are only just beginning to understand. Out of sight | dG1fT0k0T1kzRjJVS2c
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00:00 The living world is connected by a vast kingdom of life.
00:10 We are only just beginning to discover.
00:29 Fungi are so much more than mushrooms.
00:33 Everywhere you look, there are stories unfolding around fungi.
00:38 Connecting all life in the forest, but of all the fungal species on Earth,
00:46 you've only described about 5%.
00:51 As you do research, you're seeing things that no one's ever seen before.
00:58 Fungi have the chemical arsenal to break down plastic.
01:03 Sounds way far out, but my long-term dream would be to actually grow organs using psyllium.
01:10 Yet we risk losing entire branches of the tree of life to extinction.
01:17 We're burning the library. A library of different ways to rise to the challenge of living.
01:25 [Music]
01:47 If fungi have taught us anything,
01:52 it's that those who can adapt, survive.
01:56 So how might we unravel their secrets
02:01 to survive the radical change of our own time?
02:06 [Music]