Climate change has the potential to make fungi even more hazardous to our health, according to research at Duke University. Asiya Gusa's climate change research focuses on how warming temperatures ...

Researchers have now used DNA analysis to uncover just how long ants have been farming fungi, now described in a study published Thursday in the journal Science. It turns out these insects have be ...

The discovery that sound improves the growth rate of beneficial fungus suggests that dirges in the dirt may help restore forests. By Veronique Greenwood The soil beneath our feet, home to fungi ...

Volunteers uncover over 650 species including the Gibellula fungus during wildlife surveys for rainforest restoration project in West Cowal. The local community has really come together on this ...

A yeast-farming worker of the fungus-farming ant species Cyphomyrmex cf. rimosus, collected in Mindo, Ecuador, in 2011, on its fungus garden. It turns out ants had been cultivating fungi for ...

A candy-floss-like “zombie” spider fungus, which had taken over the body of its host, has been discovered in Scotland’s west coast temperate rainforest. The find, made as part of a community ...

A rare fungus that acts like the Cordyceps fungus which inspired The Last of Us was recently discovered in a rainforest in Scotland. In Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us, mankind is devastated by the ...

But insects beat us to it by millions of years. Various ant species cooperate with fungi, creating a home for them, providing them with nutrients, and harvesting them as food. This reaches the ...

The word "fungus" may inspire visions of an unwanted growth under your nail or maybe even of a pizza topping before thoughts of a thriving ecosystem. But fungi are a remarkably diverse group of ...

A new study from Smithsonian scientists analyzes ant and fungus species, and uncovers the origins of their close partnership A worker of the fungus-farming ant species Mycetophylax asper ...

According to a new study, colonies of ants began farming fungi when an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago. This asteroid impact caused a global mass extinction but also created ideal ...