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	Comments on: The Place of Sponges in the Animal Kingdom	</title>
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		By: Alan		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[Imagine how overfilled our planet would be without fungi to eat up the dead stuff. We must have planned this. lol]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Imagine how overfilled our planet would be without fungi to eat up the dead stuff. We must have planned this. lol</p>
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		By: Ruth Henriquez		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ruth Henriquez]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is very cool.

Also interesting is that animals are more closely related to fungi than to plants, as the animals and fungi lines split apart from each other more recently than did animal and plant lines (see paragraph 8 of https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061021115712.htm).  Another article on this subject noted that both animals and fungi have hollow interiors, whereas plants do not.  All those magic mushrooms out there (Amanita muscaria et al.) are our cousins.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is very cool.</p>
<p>Also interesting is that animals are more closely related to fungi than to plants, as the animals and fungi lines split apart from each other more recently than did animal and plant lines (see paragraph 8 of <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061021115712.htm" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061021115712.htm</a>).  Another article on this subject noted that both animals and fungi have hollow interiors, whereas plants do not.  All those magic mushrooms out there (Amanita muscaria et al.) are our cousins.</p>
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