A new fungus, Gibellula attenboroughii, was discovered on spiders in Irish caves. It changes their behavior, similar to ...

A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of ...

In an article featured in Science China Earth Sciences, researchers from Tianjin University elucidate the coupling relationship between soil fungi and reactive minerals in ecosystems by utilizing ...

You’ve probably heard of the gut microbiome — the ecosystem of bacteria, fungi and viruses that help you get nutrients from ...

Researchers have highlighted a new type of mind-altering parasite that takes over spiders and changes how they act.

Homeowners are warned about the dangers of honey fungus, a parasitic infection that can devastate trees and shrubs in domestic gardens. The fungus, scientifically known as Armillaria, attacks and ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

Researchers have found a new species of fungi that infects spiders turning them into 'zombies' in Ireland and Northern ...

2025 seems well on its way to becoming the Year of the Mushroom in Colorado, with the psilocybin rollout already underway.

Colorado may soon join seven other states in having its own state mushroom, thanks to the work of a group of students from Horizon High School in Thornton.

Researchers at the Bayreuth Center for Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER) at the University of Bayreuth have found ...

The emperor mushroom, Agaricus julius, was discovered in Colorado in 2016, after long being mistaken for the closely related ...