Image of the Day: Hair Ice
Fungus living on dead wood allows fine, silky strands of ice to form “hairy” arrangements, like the one shown here.
CHRISTIAN MATZLER(See “Evidence for biological shaping of hair ice,” Biogeosciences, 2015.)
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