Beside the bluebells and celandines on the woodland floor, Fortey searches for morels, “the most delicious of all fungi”.

To learn more about these grisly looking fungi (that was also an inspiration for the drug on The Penguin), Popular Science reached ... To this day, my kids will ask upon arriving at a new hiking ...

Yet, more than 90% of the estimated 3.8 million fungi in the world are currently unknown to science. "It's such an interesting set of organisms and we really know so little about them," says Prof ...

A species of wood-eating fungus didn’t need a brain to pass a cognitive test with flying colors, and researchers say this ...

While still new to the world of fungi, Rachel Fowler is trying to spread appreciation for mushrooms with two books, packed ...

Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex network of filaments, or hyphae, known as the mycelium. It is even ...

In the paper, they discuss how they conducted various experiments, including one where they arranged small wood blocks in several different shapes and allowed the fungi to spread within the shapes.

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 ...