Fungi helped destroy forests during mass extinction 250 million years ago

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    Seems plausible. There is plenty of tree death from pathogenic fungi right now.

    Note that the piece refers to bacteria in the second paragraph, for some reason, and that farther on it says conifers are relatives of today's pine species, instead of that the ancient species and today's are both conifers.
     
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