On chilly morning in eastern Oregon, correspondent Conor Knighton headed deep into Malheur National Forest, driving a series of unpaved roads, and hiking far from any trail, all in hopes of finding a ...

The world's biggest fungus, discovered in Oregon's Blue Mountains in 2001, is challenging traditional notions of what constitutes an individual. The underground fungus--estimated to be between ...

A humongous fungus lurking underground in Michigan is exceptionally old, tremendously heavy and has a curiously low mutation rate, a new study finds. Here are the fungus' impressive stats: It's at ...

This release is also available in French. (March 25, 2003 – Ottawa, Ont.) -- The world's biggest fungus, discovered in Oregon's Blue Mountains in 2001, is challenging traditional notions of what ...

Here’s a fun fact: The world’s largest organism isn’t a well-fed elephant or a blue whale or even a giant sequoia. It’s a fungus. A Facebook post from July 20 about the Armillaria is one of the latest ...

The world's largest living thing is even bigger than a blue whale (the largest animal living now). Meet Armillaria ostoyae, or, as it's nicknamed, the Humongous Fungus. It's an organism that covers ...

A huge underground fungus that is one of the largest living organisms on the planet has turned out to be both bigger and older than thought. It may have been quietly spreading through the soil of ...

Atop a low ridge in the heart of Oregon's Blue Mountains, Michael McWilliams pushes through brittle branches and scrambles over toppled logs and decay. Bare trunks tower overhead, but the U.S. Forest ...

Y: In the mixed-conifer forests of the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon there lives an organism that makes the massive African bush elephant and even the gargantuan blue whale seem petite by ...

CRYSTAL FALLS, Mich. — A 1,500-year-old, 100-ton fungus gets its due this week with northern Michigan's annual Humungus Fungus Fest. The festival in Crystal Falls honors the Armillaria fungus, which ...

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