An organism as a tenant in another -- in biology, this often works quite well. Researchers have now shed light on how such a partnership of a cell in a cell can establish itself. Endosymbiosis is a ...

A fungus that attacked other organisms 407 million years ago has been unearthed among a collection of fossils, making it the oldest of its kind to have ever been found. The new plant pathogen has also ...

Hidden beneath a quiet patch of forest in eastern Oregon, a single organism has quietly conquered the landscape, killing ...

These golden strands look as if they could be the “amber waves of grain” extolled in the song “America the Beautiful.” But they’re actually spore-producing filaments, growing from a tangle of fibers ...

Engineered fungi are moving from the lab bench to the dinner plate, promising dense protein with a fraction of the land, ...

NORTHERN IRELAND (WKRC) - A recent study discovered a new species of fungus that infects cave spiders and turns them into spore-spreading zombies. The researchers behind the study, which was published ...

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Wildlife officials confirmed the presence in California of a bat-killing fungus that causes white-nose syndrome. Millions of bats in North America have died from white-nose syndrome. California bats ...

Would you want to eat this beetle? Probably not, as it appears to be covered in fungus. That "fungus" is actually hair, however, which the recently discovered insect may use to put off would-be ...