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The Student Mycology Sensation: Capturing Fungal Growth on Animal Faeces

Alfred Drummond-Herdman, a university student in Edinburgh, transforms his student bedroom into a mycology laboratory, producing viral timelapses of fungi growing on animal waste and discovering new species.

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