Maybe it’s old hat to you but it’s news to me. At Atlantic there’s a report of how a kid who grew up in a trailer park in Montana overturned 150 years of established biology.
You probably learned in school (I certainly did) that lichens were a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and an algal species. Toby Spribille figured out that wasn’t true. They were actually a symbiotic relationship among two fungi and an algal species. Read the whole thing.
