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

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

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

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

Fungus among us . When a fungus forms a partnership with a plant, they get close. Very, very close. Somewhat like the fungal filaments that can stab human victims in The Last of Us, real ...

Fungi don’t just live in soils and with land plants, or breaking down complex materials like wood. They also thrive in the marine environment.

In January and February 2025, internet users shared a video that purportedly showed an individual placing a Pringles-brand potato chip under a microscope to reveal hundreds of tiny mites crawling ...

Giger then observed what happened to the enforced cohabitation under the microscope. After the injection of the E. coli bacteria, both the fungus and the bacteria continued to grow, ...