After having thoroughly examined the roughly 40-million-year-old piece of amber, University of Copenhagen researchers have discovered it to contain the first fossil of a predatory fungus gnat ...

Underground fungal networks are “living algorithms” that quietly help regulate Earth’s climate. Now scientists know what makes them so efficient.

This is the earliest terrestrial fungi fossil evidence ever found ... The previous earliest record of terrestrial fungus discovered in Scotland showed fungi emerged around 410 million years ago. The ...

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 ...