Despite its name, there’s no worm involved — instead, this type of infection is caused entirely by contagious fungi. As with ...

Yet, more than 90% of the estimated 3.8 million fungi in the world are ... for edible mushrooms worth £32.5bn a year Only 56 types of fungi have been evaluated for the IUCN Red List, compared ...

Dr Jassy Drakulic: 'We don't have names for most of the fungi that exist' "I find them absolutely stunning," says Dr Jassy Drakulic, pointing to a fungus emerging from a log. "There's a whole ...

The fungi provided essential minerals for land plants that allowed them to spread and turn the planet green — changing the composition of the atmosphere. Three hundred and sixty million years ...