Have you ever wondered what the largest living organism on Earth is? Well, you might be surprised to learn that it's not a giant blue whale or a sequoia tree; it's a fungus!

Humans and animals aren't the only ones farming - microbes are doing it, too, according to researchers who discovered that a fungus can farm bacteria. The soil fungus Morchella crassipes ...

Beside the bluebells and celandines on the woodland floor, Fortey searches for morels, “the most delicious of all fungi”.

Fungi have filaments which allow them to get into places other organisms cannot. So, when plants made the evolutionary journey from water to land, fungi served as their root systems for tens of ...

In the case of fungi, their “intelligence” appears to be rooted in their ability to process environmental information and ...

Those behind the proposal think fungi get a bad press. Often "stigmatised" as smelly mould or "poisonous mushrooms", these organisms are "essential to life on Earth", said Forbes. The human race ...

Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex network of filaments, or hyphae, known as the mycelium. It is even possible ...