They may look harmless growing on the forest floor, but some fungi are among the most lethal organisms on Earth. In this ...

But along these woodland trails, I find fungi as well. Ferns and trees have ... they grew on the forest floor. Other July mushrooms may be Amanita, Hygrocybe and Lactarius. But what I usually ...

Life on Earth blooms with wild ingenuity. From phosphorescent fungi feeding in the undergrowth to chameleons flicking tongues ...

He and his colleagues were walking in the rainforests north of Rio de Janeiro — actually, crawling on the forest floor "to see the low level fungi" — when he came across something that ...

The Australian seagrass, which blankets roughly 49,000 acres of ocean floor, spans more ... its ecosystem and buoying forest health. But you can also see the fungus as a mirror for our callousness.

Fungi like this Resinicium bicolor are among ... created a much richer portrait of a secret society hidden in the forest floor—a largely invisible community without which that ecosystem would ...

In the opaque silence of the forest floor, fungi are hard at work. As the forest’s digestive system, they excrete acids and enzymes that orchestrate the slow churn of organic matter with the help of ...

If damper, cooler days, the sort of weather that's often associated with the moister environs where mushrooms curl up through the forest floor, make you want to hobnob with other fungi fans ...

First, the fungus’ spores attach themselves to the ... that shake it from its nest high in the canopy and back to the forest floor. From there, the ant is compelled to climb about 10 inches ...

fungus-sapping genus. The plants grow underground without photosynthesis yet send translucent flowers to sprout like ghostly lanterns from the forest floor. First documented in 1992 in Kobe ...