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Credits:
Narrator/Writer: Stephanie Sammann
Writer: Lorraine Boissoneault
Editor: Dylan Hennessy (https://www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1)
Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (https://kpatart.com/illustrations)
Animator: Mike Ridolfi (https://www.moboxgraphics.com/)
Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net)
Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster (https://twitter.com/forgottentowel)
Producer: Brian McManus (https://www.youtube.com/c/realengineering)

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Music:
Open Field by Ankori Ramon
Terra by Ardie Son
A Journeys Epilogue by Sivan Talmor
Sublime by ANBR
From Nothing Everything by Kevin Graham
Flutes Will Chill by Kicktracks

References:

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/new....s/2017/04/how-many-t
[2] https://www.amnh.org/exhibitio....ns/dinosaurs-ancient
[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15503185/
[4] https://www.britannica.com/sci....ence/fungus/Mycorrhi
[5] https://www.sciencedirect.com/....topics/biochemistry-
[6] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-28920-x
[7] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2434626?seq=1
[8] https://www.nature.com/articles/41557
[9] https://journals.plos.org/plos....one/article?id=10.13
[10] https://www.ted.com/talks/suza....nne_simard_how_trees
[11] https://mothertreeproject.org/....about-mother-trees-i
[12] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.co....m/doi/full/10.1111/g