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 ...

ATOKA COUNTY, Okla. (KTEN) — This past fall, drought in portions of Texoma have caused an influx of a tree fungus, which explains why you may be seeing more dead trees in southeastern Oklahoma.

Phylogenetic trees provide key information to elucidate basic aspects of functional genomics. This method, multistrap, offers a way to combine sequence and structural protein information that ...

Scientists have warned that blueberries could be wiped out a fungus rapidly-spreading worldwide. Caused by a two different strains of fungus, the disease appears as a white powdery mildew on ...

The environment is suffering, too. With so many people hunting for the fungus, they’re damaging the delicate mountain soil, cutting down trees for firewood and leaving trash at their camps.

In the remote Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, a rare fungus grows inside dead caterpillars. In traditional Chinese medicine, this parasitic fungus is prized for its purported medicinal effects.