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 blue whale gets a lot of ink for the being the largest animal to ever live, beating out even the biggest dinosaurs. But it turns out the largest organisms on Earth aren’t in the oceans, they are ...

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 ...

Deep in the loamy soil of forests around the world, there exists a fungus called the honey mushroom that makes its living on death. A parasite that preys on weak trees, it sucks its victims dry of ...

Twenty-five years ago, James Anderson discovered a fungus that expanded the possibilities of life on Earth. Sipos and Nagy not only sequenced four species of Armillaria, but they also pinpointed genes ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A giant mystery organism more than 350 million years old has finally been identified as a ...