He called the organism Prototaxites, meaning “first conifer.” The name stuck, even though the fossil didn’t quite match any known trees. In fact, trees didn’t even exist during the Silurian period, ...

Members of the ascomycete fungi genus Fusarium range from plant pathogens to soil dwellers. The publication of a genomic comparison of several Fusarium species sheds light on the differences ...

Videos with clickbait titles like When Giant Fungi Ruled the Earth soon spread through the internet ... which is why that group of researchers placed the species at the base of the extinct fungal ...

Up until 2016, lichen was thought to be a partnership between one alga and one fungus, the classic symbiotic relationship. Then came the observation than in fact lichen harbors two types of fungi—an ...