As life crept onto land, fungi evolved threadlike filaments called hyphae. These microscopic strands could penetrate rock, soil, and decaying material, extracting nutrients molecule by molecule. The shift from swimming spores to spreading filaments marked fungi’s true terrestrial breakthrough.
Hyphae break rock
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Hyphae break rock
~480 MYA (+/- 20 million)
Filamentous growth (hyphae); terrestrial colonization
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About 480 million years ago, hyphae began to make land habitable.
Subject: Fungal Evolution.
The conquest of land wasn’t driven by size — it was driven by threads. By 480 million years ago, hyphae began breaking into rock to make land habitable.
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