Fungi have a nasty reputation among humans. They can cause dangerous diseases like Cryptococcus neoformans and Candida auris among our own kind, massacre beloved fellow animals like frogs and bats and ...

Fungi live in all corners of the world. They live in soil, float in the air, and thrive in oceans. They recycle nutrients, form alliances with plants, and sometimes infect them with disease. Though ...

Venom isn’t just a feature of some animals; it’s found across the living world, from plants and fungi to bacteria and viruses, says a new study. Lead author William Hayes, an ecologist at Loma Linda ...

Venom is not exclusive to animals—plants, fungi, protists, bacteria, and even viruses use venom-like mechanisms for defense, predation, and competition. Dodder - Cuscuta on a potato bush. Review ...

An international research team led by Cologne-based plant scientist Professor Dr. Bart Thomma from the Institute for Plant ...

Fungi-eating orchids were found for the first time to offer their flowers to fungi-eating fruit flies in exchange for pollination, which is the first evidence for nursery pollination in orchids. This ...

May 2026 marks the 100 th birthday of Sir David Attenborough, an icon in the world of biology and wildlife. Starting his ...

The crowning glory of the Gardenia brighamii is its pearly flower. Nicole Hynson Nicole Hynson normally gets roped in to help when all else fails. The conservation biologist from the University of ...

An international research team has found that many fungal effector proteins, which weaken plant immune systems, evolved from ancient antimicrobial molecules originally used to compete with other ...

The annual City Nature Challenge has rolled around again, and everyone's invited to join the effort to boost the Chicago ...

Italian ecologist Francesco Ficetola was at a conference two years ago when it dawned on him that emojis can help power global conservation efforts. Ficetola does a lot of research on salamanders. But ...