Mushrooms may look cute in a garden, but they can quickly take over flower beds and may even be toxic. Knowing when to remove ...

Many fungi disperse their spores by releasing them from gills or pores into the air, for breezes to carry them away. Insects can carry some fungal spores either inside or outside their bodies, and ...

All plants need to produce offspring and those offspring need to be sent out into the world to get established and grow up to make offspring of their own. Although the mother plant that produces the ...

Aspergillus fumigatus is a mold that is found all over the world. Unlike closely related species, it can cause serious, often fatal infections in humans. What makes A. fumigatus so dangerous? An ...

Challenging the long-standing assumption that a cell’s nucleus contains a complete set of chromosomes, recent research ...

It sounds like something from a Pedro Pascal zombie drama, but the rise of deadly fungal spores has got some in the scientific community running scared. Neither plants nor animals, fungi are “the most ...

Gregory Moore does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

AUSTIN, Texas--Fungus-farming ants around the world cultivate essentially the same fungus and are not as critical to the reproduction of the fungi as previously believed, biologists at The University ...

Jan. 29 (UPI) --Like most lichen, reindeer lichen can reproduce both sexually and asexually, by sending out spores or simply cloning themselves. Previously, researchers assumed reindeer lichen, ...

Only the flower on the far left is real. The rest are made of fungus. Kenneth Wurdack, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Scientists have discovered a type of fungus in Guyana ...