Paleontologists studying insects trapped in amber from 99 million years ago have made a remarkable discovery: an ant and a ...

What is the largest organism? Until a few years ago, Oregon's "humongous fungus" was considered the world's largest organism.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have turned a deadly fungus into a potent cancer-fighting compound after ...

Scientists have found that a deadly tomb fungus called Aspergillus flavus may hold the key to promising new treatments for ...

The same deadly fungus is now being looked at as a potential cancer treatment. The therapy detailed in this new study is a ...

A fatal fungus once thought to be a curse could potentially help fight disease. Scientists discovered molecules in a fungus ...

A fungus that has killed millions of bats has for the first time been found in bats on both sides of the continental divide ...

A study led by a global research consortium offers new hope for patients with mycetoma, a neglected tropical disease.

In the video game The Last of Us and its spin-off HBO series, humans fight to survive against cordyceps, a parasitic fungus ...

The deadly fungus credited with killing the archaeologists that opened the tomb of King Tut might become a treatment for ...

Antonis Rokas, a fungal biologist at Vanderbilt University who was not affiliated with the study, calls the work a tour de ...

Scientists have caught ancient parasitic fungi in the act of bursting from insect hosts, in dramatic scenes frozen in amber.