That caught my eye, too. Rather than having evolved to eat polyurethane only, an...

		blacksmith_tb on Feb 3, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yale Discovers a Fungus That Eats Plastic That caught my eye, too. Rather than having evolved to eat polyurethane only, and then waiting patiently for us to arrive with dinner, I took this to be an awkward way of reiterating that the fungus is the only organism we know of that can eat PU. Which does make me wonder a bit about what it normally eats - resins?

I read it as "capable of subsisting on polyurethane only" in the lab.