No plant or animal, but alive. How strange, rare and exotic ... like a mushroom?
(Mushrooms are not a plant nor animal either, but if you look close enough, mushrooms are indeed strange and exotic, though)
https://www.iberdrola.com/sustainability/biology-kingdoms-li...
https://www.iberdrola.com/wcorp/gc/prod/en_US/comunicacion/r...
Taking our classification schemes as a fact about biology is confusing the map for the territory.
But you are correct that mushrooms (which is the fruiting body of some types of fungi) are separate from plants (and actually more closely related to animals. They're basically animals that digest things externally instead of having a stomach to digest things internally)
Or, I guess, that you have a topologically external surface which does nothing but create vacuoles around food, which then get transmitted to a topologically internal digestive surface. (Similar mechanisms do exist for other purposes; one thing that may happen to a splinter embedded in your finger is that the body applies a protective coating to the splinter and then expels it.)
Starfish seem like an interesting case here, in that they have an ordinary internal stomach which they extrude, when they're eating, for the purpose of external digestion.
Our ancestors probably started as insectivores / frugivores / egg eaters
This is a video that partially explains the concept.
There are fungal spores pretty much everywhere, healthy animals are just particularly good at keeping they’re active forms at bay.
That you didn’t see this, make me think that some cultures have more use of irony than others. I can imaging that in a potpourri of cultures like the USA irony can often be misunderstood and therefore is less used than in other countries.
First of all, TheSpiceIsLife is Tasmanian according to their bio.
Second, even if they were American to then assume that all Americans can’t pick up on irony or sarcasm because one person on the internet missed an instance of it is quite the stretch.