Two bits of amber discovered in a lab basement hold ancient evidence of a fungi famous for controlling the minds of its victims.

It started as a home-cooked meal, ended in multiple deaths and a court sentence for Erin Patterson. Here's how the death cap ...

If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, you're walking over a vast underground patchwork of fungal filaments, supporting ...

Anthracnose is a common spring disease on maple trees. Several different fungi can cause the symptoms we describe as anthracnose.

Zombie fungi were already controlling insects 100 million years ago, according to a recent study of fossils trapped in ...

Pune: Did you know trees ‘communicate' using a network of fungi below the ground, just like we do with the internet? This ...

Simon Claringbold picked and ate wild mushrooms from his garden. Days later, he thought he was taking his last breath.

Erin Patterson is now a triple murderer. She armed herself by getting in her red MG to go to a wet footy ground and sniff out ...

We are coming out of a rainy spring in the San Juans. The monsoons are already here, and with them, the strong winds carry ...

Laccaic acid, thought to be produced by lac insects, is produced by a symbiont similar to the zombie ant fungus ...

Scientists discover a giant thousand-year-old tree called Tessmannia princeps, a new species that reaches 131 feed high and 3 ...