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 ...

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

By reconstructing the tree of life from the evolutionary history of amoebas and the ancestors of algae, fungi, plants and animals, Brazilian researchers have created a scenario in which several ...

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 ...

This creature's large fangs earned it the name Hylomys macarong, or vampire hedgehog – a new species of soft-furred hedgehog identified in 2024 (Credit: Alexei V Abramov) Thousands of new ...

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 ...