Discovery pushes back origin of Ophiocordyceps fungi by 30 million years, suggesting fungi evolved by shifting to new hosts.

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a ...

Paleoophiocordyceps gerontoformicae and Paleoophiocordyceps ironomyiae are the names given to two newly discovered ancient ...

A billion years of coexistence between plants and fungi Date: February 6, 2019 Source: Virginia Tech Summary: What can a billion years of coexistence tell us about the evolution of plants and fungi?

World’s oldest fungi, found in fossils, may rewrite Earth’s early history. Fungal fossils, hundreds of millions of years older than previously known, shed light on the evolution of fungi ...

Discovery About Evolution Of Fungi Has Implications For Humans. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2006 / 10 / 061021115712.htm ...

A U of Minnesota researcher says as early fungi made the evolutionary journey from water to land and branched off from animals, they shed tail-like flagella that propelled them through their ...

Fungi "play a huge role in the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems and the carbon cycle," Hibbett notes. "They don't get enough attention." In the meantime, ...