Move over peanuts, there's a new packaging material in town—and it's made of mushrooms.

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Credits

Cinematography by Steve McCarthy

Sound by Mario Cardenas

Narrated by Anna Rothschild

Original Footage © WGBH Educational Foundation 2013

Media Credits

(mushroom timelapse) © Ecovative

(mold) Wikimedia Commons/Bob Blaylock (CC BY-SA 3.0)

(A niger hyphae) Wikimedia Commons/Y tambe (CC BY-SA 3.0)

(main image) © WGBH Educational Foundation 2013