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But when the scientists behind the new study used fossil spore and pollen data from early primate fossil environs to predict the climate, they discovered that the locations were not tropical at the time.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026

For a mushroom to grow, a fungal spore has to set up shop on a surface and produce mycelia.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

It produces a type of cell called a spore, which is very resistant to heating.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2023

IRVINE, Calif. — A drone flies over a peaceful Southern California marsh and unleashes a rain of larvae-killing bacterial spore pellets.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

We are told also that milky spore disease cannot be used on the periphery of the beetle’s range because it can be established only where a large grub population is already present in the soil.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Unkelbauer, who studied palynology -- the study of microscopic biological material found in sediment such as pollen and spores -- illustrates a growing labour market mismatch in Germany.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

This is partly because the bacterium forms spores that can survive treatment and later grow into new bacteria.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026

On the underside of its cap are white gills and spores.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026

It is only logical, writes Mr. Scharf in “The Giant Leap,” that this life should then spread itself through space in what he terms a great “dispersal,” as though humans were airborne seeds or spores.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

So the fungus fruits, sending up morels to release trillions of spores.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

The Oita prefecture produces 40% of Japan’s shiitake mushrooms, spored in the trunks of sawtooth oaks.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2017

Three types of spores may be said to prevail in the Tuberacei: the smooth spored, the warted or spinulose, and the areolate.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

Most of the former are firmer, while the black spored specimens soon deliquesce.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

In this respect it corresponds with the Armillaria among the white spored agarics.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

The simple spored rust first makes its appearance, and later the bilocular “mildew.”

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

Lack of rain combined with several days of hard frost in a row will prevent mushrooms from sporing in the fall.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

Some are just starting to bear fruiting bodies, or sporing bodies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

This discoloration happens as the mushroom passes through the sporing process, and can result in overwhelming bitter notes, which the drying process helps dissipate.

From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2022

For the morning glory that spreads its petals at dawn, for geese flying south in autumn, for locusts swarming every 17 years and even for lowly slime molds sporing in daily cycles, timing is everything.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 13, 2014

Streaming steam—i. e., steam at 100°C.—destroys the vegetative forms of bacteria in from fifteen to twenty minutes, and the sporing forms in from one to two hours.

From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by Eyre, J. W. H. (John William Henry)