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Time-Lapse Video Shows a Stinkhorn Mushroom's Week-Long Life

Time-Lapse Video Shows a Stinkhorn Mushroom's Week-Long Life

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A German forestry office filmed a stinkhorn mushroom growing and decaying over one week.

A German forestry office filmed a stinkhorn mushroom growing and decaying over one week.

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A government forestry office in eastern Germany caught this time-lapse video of a stinkhorn mushroom growing and decaying over one week. As they say with stinkhorns, “you’ll smell them before you see them,” and the flies certainly did in this case.

A government forestry office in eastern Germany caught this time-lapse video of a stinkhorn mushroom growing and decaying over one week. As they say with stinkhorns, “you’ll smell them before you see them,” and the flies certainly did in this case.

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