Fungi may be the real-life superheroes of the natural world. Fungi are truly weird and impressive—they can live anywhere, be ...

Volunteers conducting a routine biodiversity survey in southwest England discovered a rare pink fungus species - Clavaria calabrica, known as the "fairy club" - that had never before been recorded in ...

Can fungi influence the weather? Turns out, they just might. An international group of researchers that includes Virginia ...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi drive nutrient flows along ‘trunk routes’ of the network, illuminating the design principles of a symbiotic supply-chain network shaped by millions of years of natural ...

Mycologists cultivated fungi they found in post-wildfire landscapes to understand the evolutionary traits behind their ...

Fungi growing on a tree in a wood in England. Image by © Tim Sandle. Fungi growing on a tree in a wood in England. Image by © Tim Sandle. While considerable ...

Almost all plants live in close symbiosis with so-called mycorrhizal fungi – an important symbiosis for absorbing essential ...

Scientists have discovered a newly identified marine fungus that can infect and kill toxic algae responsible for harmful ...

Almost all plants live in close symbiosis with so-called mycorrhizal fungi—an important symbiosis for absorbing essential ...

We tend to think of agriculture as a human innovation. But insects beat us to it by millions of years. Various ant species cooperate with fungi, creating a home for them, providing them with nutrients ...

Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 plants and fungi named new to science in 2025. From "camouflaged" plants to ...

A fungus named in honor of Sir David Attenborough is warping the bodies and even minds of spiders in Ireland. Researchers found that many Metellina merianae spiders across Ireland have become infected ...