In 2016, Benjamin Wolfe, a microbiome scientist at Tufts University, was scheming. He’d convinced his former advisor, Rachel ...

The findings show that the common ancestor of the extant fungi was about 1.4 to 900 million years ago. That is far earlier ...

Garden experts embrace fungi as weather conditions encourage autumn bonanza - The RHS said it was encouraging fungi across ...

Wolfgang Bivour, a renowned fungi expert in Germany, leads mushroom hunting tours near Potsdam. This activity, once a ...

Fungi arose long before plants, shaping Earth with early soils and nutrient cycles. Their hidden legacy shows they may have ...

New research reveals fungi, not plants, were Earth's first land colonizers, emerging hundreds of millions of years earlier.

This finding exposed a hidden carbon transfer. The fungi fed on deadwood, absorbed its carbon, and passed it to orchids. In ...

POTSDAM, Germany (AP) — Wolfgang Bivour carefully emptied a basket of freshly collected mushrooms onto a forest floor covered with fallen autumn leaves. Brown-capped porcini and bay boletes lay beside ...

In darkness, a wormlike creature squirms. A tiny nematode weaves its way between grains of rock and particles of organic ...

Orchid seeds are as small as dust and do not provide any nutrients for the young plant to grow. The adult plants are known to ...

The Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors national parks are home to some of the UK's rarest mushrooms, a conservation charity ...

Wolfgang Bivour, a renowned fungi expert in Germany, leads mushroom hunting tours near Potsdam. This activity, once a necessity after World War II, is seeing a revival. The pandemic and ...