Jurassic-era blue-stain fungi fossils found in China push their origin back 80 million years. These fungi pierced wood using ...

Plants and trees extend their roots into the earth in order to draw nutrients and water from the soil—however, these roots ...

Underground fungi may be one of Earth s most powerful and overlooked allies in the fight against climate change, yet most of ...

A student at WVU identified a fungus in morning glories that makes LSD-related compounds. Named Periglandula clandestina, it ...

Bacterial and fungal spores float out in the stratosphere, yet they are capable of falling back to Earth where they can ...

Sunday in that bleak pandemic summer of 2020, the air near central California’s Big Basin Redwoods State Park felt muggy, almost tropical. Weird, thought naturalist Christian ...

Most underground fungi remain unknown, and urgent action is needed to study their crucial role in sustaining ecosystems the ...

Mycorrhizal fungi help regulate the Earth's climate and ecosystems by forming underground networks that provide plants with ...

An ant, no longer in control of its body, crawls away from its colony, hangs perilously on a leaf, and waits to die as a fungus consumes its body, emerges from its head, and releases spores into ...

Hidden in the seed coat of a common plant, an elusive fungus has finally been found. It may lead to better treatments for ...

What do earthworms eat? Most of us learn in school that earthworms are good for the soil and help maintain a healthy ...