Found everywhere from tropical rainforests to boreal forests and farmland, these underground fungi sustain life above ground, often without us realising they’re even there. A recent academic ...

When Entomophaga grylli infects locusts or grasshoppers, they climb to the tops of plants before their death. The zombie-ant ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a ...

A remarkable discovery from mid-Cretaceous amber has pushed back the evolutionary timeline of one of nature’s most bizarre ...

This week, see zombie fungi trapped in an amber fossil, explore the sun’s hidden south pole, meet tool-using whales that ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...

In the video game The Last of Us and its spin-off HBO series, humans fight to survive against cordyceps, a parasitic fungus ...

Paleontologists studying insects trapped in amber from 99 million years ago have made a remarkable discovery: an ant and a ...

Fungi Perfecti now specifies when its products are made of mushroom mycelium, though the designs are still adorned with mushroom fruiting bodies. It's unclear whether consumers always know which ...

Fungi Perfecti now specifies when its products are made of mushroom mycelium, though the designs are still adorned with mushroom fruiting bodies. It’s unclear whether consumers always know which ...

It gets worse. A few days after the ant dies, the cordyceps-driven mission finally becomes clear: Long, stalk-like fruiting bodies begin to sprout from the poor creature’s body. Soon, from this ...

Fruiting bodies shaped like lollipops also emerge to spread spores to new hosts. G. attenboroughii–infected spiders were removed from caves and dried (one shown) to study the fungus’s shape ...