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Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Marine scientists discovered an ocean-borne fungus chomping through plastic trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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"Nature finds a way" -- Dr. Ian Malcolm
The plastic simply was a too nice of an energy source to be left aside by microorganisms. There are microorganisms for basically any energy source the world provides. There are bacteria that live on undersea volcanoes feasting on acids and carbon dioxide, so a fungus eating plastic is no actual surprise.
- Unless you include the “uh” in that quote I can’t hear Jeff Goldblum say it, and that’s a trigger I didn’t know it had. So, thanks?
  
  Also he said life, not nature.
  
  "Life, uh, not nature" doesn't have the same ring to it
- It also impresses me that there’s bacteria eating metal under the sea.

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