Meet the Chicken of the Woods – the mushroom that tastes like chicken
A delicacy and tasty, high-protein vegetarian alternative to chicken. Be wary of what you eat from the woods, though.
Tag: mushroom
Some mushrooms can squeeze through tiny spaces, but they need to make sacrifices
The fastest-growing mushrooms can't do it, just the more resilient ones.
This trippy timelapse of mushroom fruiting is the best thing you’ll see today
What mushrooms are doing when humans aren't looking.
The fungus is 635 million years old and it may have helped save the planet
It's three times older than the first dinosaurs, and it probably played its part against the Snowball Earth.
Low-calorie, high-protein, with a vitamin D boost: mushrooms make meals more nutritious
Three words to remember: eat more mushrooms!
New species of glowing mushroom found growing on dead bamboo in India
Glowing is always in fashion.
Scientists create glowing plants using mushroom DNA and they are incredible
It's just like in Avatar.
Humans aren’t the only animals that get drunk (or worse): here are a few others
All life likes to party.
Scientists map global “Internet of Mushrooms”
“I haven’t seen anybody do anything like that before,” researchers commented.
Mushrooms might help keep your brain healthy
Delicious and nutritious -- mushrooms are good for your brain, new study suggests.
Scientists create bionic mushroom that generates electricity out of microbes
What do you get when you 3-D print cyanobacteria onto button mushrooms?
Paleontologists find the oldest mushroom fossil
It's the first mineralized mushroom fossil we've ever found.
Incredible fungi timelapse from BBC’s Planet Earth II
Stop what you're doing and watch this incredible footage. Your life will not be the same again.
NASA just developed a way of detecting underground fungi – from space
A team of NASA researchers has developed the first ever method for identifying and studying underground forest fungi from outer ...
Even More Spectacular Fungi Photos by Steve Axford
In September 2014, we were telling you about Steve Axford's spectacular mushroom photography. I was truly fascinated by the art ...
Why some tropical mushrooms glow in the dark
The tropical forests of Northeaster Brazil have their own nightlight: a peculiar mushroom called Neonothopanus gardneri that glows in the ...
Scientists find antibiotic-like substance in mushroom that grows on horse dung
You just have to applaud the researcher that study mushrooms growing on horse dung to see what medicinal properties they ...
Fantastic Fungi: Mind Blowing Mushroom Diversity Photographed by Steve Axford
Marasmius haematocephalus Panus fasciatus Cup mushroom These truly wonderful photographs were taken by Steve Axford. Let's leave Steve describe himself: I ...
Deep Sea ‘mushroom’ is a new branch of life, defying classification in the tree of life
Olesen et al, 2014. A team of scietists from the University of Copenhagen have found a mushroom shaped animal which ...
Fungus that devours plastic might help clean the environment
A group of students from Yale University, along with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, were on a routine trip to the Amazon's Yasuni ...
How Poisonous Mushrooms Cook Up Toxins
Heather Hallen is a Michigan State University plant biology research associate who has been looking for the poison in the ...
