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

Enzymes catalyze chemical reactions in organisms—without which life would not be possible. Leveraging AlphaFold2 artificial ...

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 ...

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

Scientists say wild tomato plants on the archipelago's western islands are experiencing "reverse evolution" and reverting back to ancestral traits ...

Enzymes catalyze chemical reactions in organisms - without which life would not be possible. Leveraging AlphaFold2 artificial intelligence ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body ...

Science News: In a remarkable find, 160-million-year-old blue-stain fungi fossils have been unearthed in China's Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation. This discovery, deta ...

News Release 17-Jun-2025 ERC grant will support the placement of tens of thousands of previously unknown fungi in the evolution tree Grant and Award Announcement Estonian Research Council image: ...

The origin of complex organisms called eukaryotes—which includes all animals, plants, and fungi—is one of biology’s biggest mysteries. A new discovery helps reveal these evolutionary roots.

The mind-controlling “zombie” fungus, which served as the inspiration for the video game and post-apocalyptic TV show The ...