y notes  bacterium ry pub “ions”—a discovery t o involve rare amounts of luckand devotion andpossibly some oty not specified.

    t enougs.tock of to be found, examined, and recordedvery mucruns tists available to do it. take ttle-knoifers. t can survive almostanytions are tougo a compact scabolism, and  for better times. In tate, you can drop to boiling er orfreeze t to absolute zero—t is toms give up—and,  urned to a more pleasing environment, t 500 species ified(t nobody ely, oget all t  to ted amateur, a London clerical ime. t you could ifer expertsin to dinner and not o borroes from the neighbors.

    Even sometant and ubiquitous as fungi—and fungi are bottractscomparatively little notice. Fungi are everyo name but a sampling—and t in volumest most of us little suspect. Gatogetypical acre of meado marginal organisms. itfungi tato bligcce’s foot, but alsono yogurts or beers or coget 70,000 species of fungi ified,but it is t t of mycologists ry, making cs and t is o say ivelyinvolved in researc ake it t to be foundto find them.

    travel and otion into t t all t big, but at ground level, is actually enormous—enormous enougo be full ofsurprises. t living relative of to exist insubstantial numbers in ts of Zaire—total population is estimated at pery t its existence  even suspected until tietury. tless Neakainct for teamof Frencisists in tibet, orm in a remote valley,came across a breed of  oric cave draants oniso learn t ty in the wider world.

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