Fungi are taking the U.S. by storm — and not in the good way.

Many fungi disperse their spores by releasing them from gills or pores into the air, for breezes to carry them away. Insects can carry some fungal spores either inside or outside their bodies, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fungi are taking the U.S. by storm — and not in the good way. What’s being described as “fungal storms” isn’t a new kind of ...

While the phenomenon of a fungal storm is most common in the Southwest, no region is necessarily immune to their effects ...

Fungicides are similar to the drugs given to patients. So the fungus becomes resistant to the fungicide and, at the same time ...

Cordyceps fungi rely on highly specialized spores to spread infection, turning a single host into the starting point of a much larger biological assault. After killing the insect, the fungus grows ...

Fungal spores found in the dung of Pleistocene megafauna reveal that large animals in the Colombian Andes went extinct in two “waves” Shiny Mottlegill (Panaeolus semiovatus), a species of coprophilous ...

It sounds like something from a Pedro Pascal zombie drama, but the rise of deadly fungal spores has got some in the scientific community running scared. Neither plants nor animals, fungi are “the most ...