This fungi spore has the fastest launch in nature, accelerating from a standstill to 56 mph (90 kph) in one-millionth of a second. That's like a human being going from zero to 5000 times the speed of sound in 1/1,000,000 of a second.
Scientists used very high speed 250,000 frame-per-second video cameras to record the event, which occurs so quickly it can't be detected with the human eye.
So what's the spore's need for speed?
"It is the need to get their spores away from the pile of poo on which these fungi live that drove the evolution of their dramatic ability."
Poo, oh yes indeed.
