The 11 pretty mushrooms and other fungi below offer a visual feast of color and form and are a far cry from the typical white-or-brown palette of the criminis and portobellos we find at the ...

Fungi, parasites, viruses, and archaea all live there, too—and scientists are finding that all of them together have an effect on our health. Bacteria aren’t the only microorganisms living in ...

The new Book of Fungi, by Peter Roberts and Shelley Evans, is a couple of kilograms worth of beautiful mushroom book. The lurid photographs and enticing, offhandedly witty descriptions make the ...

This discovery has pretty big implications, both for our understanding of fungi and our understanding of how life was starting to form all those years ago. For one, it more than doubles the length ...

Flora. Fauna. Funga. The case for fungi to be considered their own kingdom within the natural world was simple: Without them, much of life as we know it on this planet—starting with the ability ...

Though a network of fungi can function like the neurons of a brain in some senses, they do not literally think. Let’s just hope that keeps them from plotting world domination. Fungal Ecology, 2024.

Tasmania's colourful fungi are putting on a show only in the state's dampest corners after a dry summer and autumn. A fungi enthusiast shares some species to look for when the conditions are right.

Kiara DeMare/CPR News Andrew Wilson, an associate curator of mycology, stands near the Denver Botanical Gardens' fungi archive, Jan. 31, 2025.. The Colorado State Joint Mushroom Committee is ...