Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 ...

The largest organism is the Armillaria ostoyae, also known as the "humongous fungus." The fungus covers 2,385 acres and is 8,650 years old, weighing 35,000 tons. Experts suggest that other organisms ...

New species are being discovered faster than ever before - at a rate of more than 16,000 every year, suggests a new study.

The Chernobyl tragedy was one of the most dreadful tragedies of all time. It happened when a routine test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant went horribly wrong. A massive explosion ripped through ...

Fungi are neither plants nor animals. The kingdom fungi is one of the six kingdoms of life, along with plants, animals, protists, bacteria and archaea. Molds and yeasts are part of the kingdom fungi, ...

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Then there is the fungus, Beauveria bassiana. This fungus is neither the tree’s nor the beetle’s friend; as a pathogenic ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown branch of life, researchers say. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

When a wildfire obliterates a forest, the first life to rise from the ashes is usually a fungus - one of several species that cannot complete its life cycle in the absence of fire. Scientists have ...

Fungi are as old as the hills. Scientists have identified bits of fossilized fungi that date back 440 million years, making them the oldest known fossils of any land-dwelling organism. The finding, ...

What is the largest organism? Until a few years ago, Oregon’s “humongous fungus” was considered the world’s largest organism. Now, some experts aren’t so sure. The largest organism is the Armillaria ...