Some plants display animal-like behaviors. Sundew hunts insects. Skunk cabbage generates heat. Witchweed steals nutrients.

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 ...

They are the foundation of complex, multicellular life including all animals, plants and fungi, as well as many unicellular organisms. “The origin of eukaryotic cells has long remained a mystery ...

Intrigued by Allado-McDowell’s opera and book, she reached out to them about presenting an experimental show that would ... databases for all the animals, plants, fungi and other beings that ...

Johnny El-Rady, professor of instruction in the USF Department of Molecular Biosciences, specializes in medical mycology – fungi that can infect humans and animals. He says while he enjoys the show – ...

READ: The consequences of oppressing diversity The overall red list now includes 169,420 species of animals, plants and fungi, of which 47,187 are threatened with extinction, scientists said. There ...

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 ...

Not a plant, not an animal ... modern fungi. Some were thick-walled and unbranched, others thin and highly branched. Some bore faint rings — growth patterns fungi don’t typically show.

For as long as plants have lived on land, fungi have sustained them. Beneath every giant sequoia, every wheat stalk, every black-eyed Susan, hidden webs of filigreed mycelia permeate the plants’ roots ...

Fungi aren’t plants, but Mishra is interested in one of fungi’s most plantlike features, mycelia. These rootlike structures tunnel through soil for nutrients and can detect en­vironmental ...

He touches on the fungi that link plants ... Animals are also a big part of my life, and a lot of my time is dedicated to playing with my cat, Herbie. The best-known forms of fungus are molds, yeasts, ...

Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction ... a whole new era for life on Earth, including animals, plants, and fungi. “This is the most comprehensive and up ...