After having thoroughly examined the roughly 40-million-year-old piece of amber, University of Copenhagen researchers have ...

This is the earliest terrestrial fungi fossil evidence ever found, indicating that the ancestors of fungi, including yeasts, molds and mushrooms, colonized the land about 200 million years earlier ...

The snacks, including purple lumps of a trufflelike fungus, might have been berry mimics, says paleoecologist Alex Boast of Manaaki Whenua–Landcare Research in Lincoln, New Zealand. For fungal ...