103: Sage The Bad Naturalist & The Frog Mushroom Mystery

Why aren't mushroom animals? Why is this mushroom growing out of a frog?? WHAT KIND OF MUSHROOM IS TOAD?!?! Well Sage the Bad Naturalist is here to answer all our festering fungus questions! Things we Talk About: Sponge Lifecycle Fungus Lifecycle Mushroom Growing out of Frog Bunashimeji Mushroom Blewit Mushroom Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:06:50) Why Aren't Fungi Animals (00:24:55) This is Planet Chitin (00:30:01) The Frog Mushroom Mystery (00:52:47) Questions for Sage (01:19:16) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: Maybe some day I’ll get to be on this podcast, don’t ask scicomm dad! fungal anatomy, mushrooms are just the short lived fruiting body, fungi don’t have seeds or leaves or photosynthesize, Fungi were just the weird plant for a while - just Jerry, fungi don’t have vasculature their more spongy, fungi are genetically closer to animals so why didn’t Jerry come to our family? coral are animals, coral and fungal reproduction cycles, you’re going to learn so much in this one Tom, “that’s cant be the reason why”, consequences of the divergence aren’t the reason - the divergence is the reason, we should have been wrong more righ…