A new study tracks the proliferation of fungal pathogens among various climate change scenarios—and it’s not good news.

Fungi have a nasty reputation among humans ... Environment found that past extinction rates for freshwater animals and plants today is three orders of magnitude higher than it was during the ...

Fungi tend to form a symbiotic relationship with different plants and animals, and they move by eating and expanding outward. For most plants today, that means fungi live within their root systems ...

Fungi form a hidden network that runs through the Earth like a system of life-giving veins. Scientists are only just ...

There are major overlapping characteristics shared by fungi and animals that plants do not have, said John Walker, a professor at Appalachian State University who studies fungi. The meaty taste ...

A different descendant of that common ancestor went on to give rise to all animals and fungi. It’s like a fairy tale: one brother goes off to found the kingdom of plants, and the other strikes ...

In this new study, a team of researchers tested whether airborne eDNA that holds information on local plant ... fungi, plants, insects, mammals, birds, amphibians, and other animal groups.

Venom isn’t just a feature of some animals; it’s found across the living world, from plants and fungi to bacteria and viruses, says a new study. Lead author William Hayes, an ecologist at Loma ...

Then a fellow grad student helped him get early access to the wealth of transcriptome data being amassed by the One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Initiative ... Researchers thought the animals lacked ...

Existing fungi do not have medullary spots. Its innards were also made up of all sorts of tubes, including thin tubes that bent and branched, larger curving tubes with thicker walls but no ...