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How Long Can Fungi Live? Some Can Be Thousands Of Years Old, But It’s Surprisingly Hard To Age These “Invisible” Lifeformsa bright blue mushroom on the forest floor

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How Long Can Fungi Live? Some Can Be Thousands Of Years Old, But It’s Surprisingly Hard To Age These “Invisible” Lifeformsa bright blue mushroom on the forest floor
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How Long Can Fungi Live? Some Can Be Thousands Of Years Old, But It’s Surprisingly Hard To Age These “Invisible” Lifeforms

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Amazonian "Zombie-Ant" Fungus Just Got Even Weirder As Scientists Discover It’s Been Living A Secret Double Life Inside An Entirely Different HostCamponotus nidulans ants infected by O. camponoti-nidulantis found among bryophytes at the Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve. Specimen “TAJ59” found on Octoblepharum moss.

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Amazonian "Zombie-Ant" Fungus Just Got Even Weirder As Scientists Discover It’s Been Living A Secret Double Life Inside An Entirely Different HostCamponotus nidulans ants infected by O. camponoti-nidulantis found among bryophytes at the Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve. Specimen “TAJ59” found on Octoblepharum moss.
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Amazonian "Zombie-Ant" Fungus Just Got Even Weirder As Scientists Discover It’s Been Living A Secret Double Life Inside An Entirely Different Host

clock-iconAugust 3, 2026
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Earth's Underground Fungal Network Could Stretch A Billion Times Farther Than The Distance To The SunAn image of a Mycelial network digitally colored to show its extension. It is made up of purple connections expanding in various directions, with the thicker shoots having a more yellow color.

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Earth's Underground Fungal Network Could Stretch A Billion Times Farther Than The Distance To The SunAn image of a Mycelial network digitally colored to show its extension. It is made up of purple connections expanding in various directions, with the thicker shoots having a more yellow color.
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Earth's Underground Fungal Network Could Stretch A Billion Times Farther Than The Distance To The Sun

clock-iconJune 12, 2026

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Pathogenic Fungal Spores Found Surviving Miles Above Our Heads In Earth's StratosphereA photo taken just above the Earth's stratosphere, showing thick cloud cover stretching out to the curvature of the planet in the lower half of the image. The sky is blue and framed against the deep black of space above it. To the left of the photo, at the horizon point, a bright flare can be seen as the Sun is starting to rise into view.

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Pathogenic Fungal Spores Found Surviving Miles Above Our Heads In Earth's StratosphereA photo taken just above the Earth's stratosphere, showing thick cloud cover stretching out to the curvature of the planet in the lower half of the image. The sky is blue and framed against the deep black of space above it. To the left of the photo, at the horizon point, a bright flare can be seen as the Sun is starting to rise into view.
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Pathogenic Fungal Spores Found Surviving Miles Above Our Heads In Earth's Stratosphere

clock-iconMay 8, 2025
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Killer Fungus In “The Last Of Us” Gets A Deadly Upgrade Inspired By Real Lifecordyceps are bright yellow growing in jars in a lab

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Killer Fungus In “The Last Of Us” Gets A Deadly Upgrade Inspired By Real Lifecordyceps are bright yellow growing in jars in a lab
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Killer Fungus In “The Last Of Us” Gets A Deadly Upgrade Inspired By Real Life

clock-iconApril 9, 2025
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What The Different Colors Of Mold In Your House Say About The Health Risksan orange with blue mold on it

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What The Different Colors Of Mold In Your House Say About The Health Risksan orange with blue mold on it
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What The Different Colors Of Mold In Your House Say About The Health Risks

clock-iconFebruary 10, 2025
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Shy Cave Spiders Turned Into "Zombies" By Behavior-Changing FungusCave spider is partially hidden in a crevice with just legs visible.

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Shy Cave Spiders Turned Into "Zombies" By Behavior-Changing FungusCave spider is partially hidden in a crevice with just legs visible.
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Shy Cave Spiders Turned Into "Zombies" By Behavior-Changing Fungus

clock-iconFebruary 6, 2025
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Why Do Some Mushrooms Grow In Perfect Circles?a fairy ring of mushrooms in a circle

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Why Do Some Mushrooms Grow In Perfect Circles?a fairy ring of mushrooms in a circle
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Why Do Some Mushrooms Grow In Perfect Circles?

clock-iconJanuary 3, 2025
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Found Some Weird Yellow Goo On A Tree? It Might Be “Witch’s Butter”a yellow brain-looking fungus on a branch, it's witch's butter

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Found Some Weird Yellow Goo On A Tree? It Might Be “Witch’s Butter”a yellow brain-looking fungus on a branch, it's witch's butter
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Found Some Weird Yellow Goo On A Tree? It Might Be “Witch’s Butter”

clock-iconDecember 17, 2024
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Glowing Wood Now An Option Thanks To A Curious Fungus’s Ghostly Bioluminescencea bioluminescent fungus growing on a tree

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Glowing Wood Now An Option Thanks To A Curious Fungus’s Ghostly Bioluminescencea bioluminescent fungus growing on a tree
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Glowing Wood Now An Option Thanks To A Curious Fungus’s Ghostly Bioluminescence

clock-iconDecember 3, 2024
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What The Heck Is The Bananapocalypse? Are We Facing A Banana-Free Future?Several bunches of bananas on jute fabric

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What The Heck Is The Bananapocalypse? Are We Facing A Banana-Free Future?Several bunches of bananas on jute fabric
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What The Heck Is The Bananapocalypse? Are We Facing A Banana-Free Future?

clock-iconAugust 19, 2024
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New Type Of Lethal Fungus That Is “Serious Threat” To Public Health DiscoveredAbscess containing a colony of Candida

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New Type Of Lethal Fungus That Is “Serious Threat” To Public Health DiscoveredAbscess containing a colony of Candida
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New Type Of Lethal Fungus That Is “Serious Threat” To Public Health Discovered

clock-iconAugust 12, 2024
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Scientists Are Building Saunas For Frogs To Fight The Amphibian Extinction CrisisThese green and gold bell frogs are vulnerable in the wild, having once been common, but hope could be on hand in the form of frog saunas.

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Scientists Are Building Saunas For Frogs To Fight The Amphibian Extinction CrisisThese green and gold bell frogs are vulnerable in the wild, having once been common, but hope could be on hand in the form of frog saunas.
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Scientists Are Building Saunas For Frogs To Fight The Amphibian Extinction Crisis

clock-iconJune 26, 2024
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This Zombie Fungus Is One Of The World’s Most Expensive Natural ResourcesWinter worm-summer grass is actually a parasitized caterpillar corpse

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This Zombie Fungus Is One Of The World’s Most Expensive Natural ResourcesWinter worm-summer grass is actually a parasitized caterpillar corpse
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This Zombie Fungus Is One Of The World’s Most Expensive Natural Resources

clock-iconApril 4, 2024
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Cicadapocalypse Returns To The US With First Double Brood Emergence In 221 Yearsthree cicadas crawling along a branch upside down

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Cicadapocalypse Returns To The US With First Double Brood Emergence In 221 Yearsthree cicadas crawling along a branch upside down
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Cicadapocalypse Returns To The US With First Double Brood Emergence In 221 Years

clock-iconJanuary 15, 2024
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