A quick bio recap, anyone? "Fungi" are neither plants nor animals. There are about 29,000 microfungi estimated so far. In a small decaying leaf, you can spot 145 different species of fungi. They are nature’s scavengers tasked to break down all the non living organic matter by feeding on them. Impartial that they don’t care if its your sh*t or you yourself. So, its not Obama but the fungi that run the world actually. And fungus spread by dispersing their spores – which are like seeds in the plants kingdom. This blog is about a special fungus called Pilobolus . Pilobolus will attain its nirvana if it can decompose a lump of cow dung. Now, being an immobile mushroom, how does it locate the cow dung? Seriously mates, that was the most awesome thing I came across recently. Pilobolus has evolved a way to shoot its spores out. The spores fly away at 35 feet per second, at a height of six feet, and land as far away as 8 feet on the nearby patch of grass. A cow might eat that grass to