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Hikers find ghostly ‘hair ice’ clinging to trees in an Irish forest – Livescience.com
Hair ice has appeared on rotting trees all over the world, and fungus may be to blame.
Hikers in Ireland were strolling among the frosty trees last week when they stumbled into what looked like an enchanted candy forest. White wisps of fluffy frost bloomed from tree branches like cotton candy, but the mysterious fluff disappeared with a single touch, the hikers tweeted
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There’s no witchcraft afoot in the forest (and no, the hikers were not named Hansel and Gretel), but there is some minor alchemy happening, thanks to a peculiar and productive fungus. This bizarre winter phenomenon…
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