This fascinating fungus grows year-round on dead and decaying wood, especially deciduous trees and hardwoods like oak, birch, beech, and maple. Witch's butter is one of the few mushrooms that ...

Researchers at the Bayreuth Center for Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER) at the University of Bayreuth have found ...

Three hundred and sixty million years ago, in the Devonian era, there were no trees yet. The only animals living on land were invertebrates. But enormous fungi towered over the landscape.

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus ... s tallest trees reached only a ...