There is an entire ecosystem in a previously-overl... ...in a matrix of almost-inivisible filaments of the fungus Marasmius. Jake Snaddon from the University of Ox... ...been studying this in-between layer of leaves and fungus . When Snaddon shifted his focus to these hanging...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/22/the-rainforest-mezzanine/A bioluminescent mushroom was discovered in Brazil in 1840 and named Agaricus gardneri (in honor of botanist George Gardner, who discovered it). The species was not observed again until 2009! I read that and thought. "Ho...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/27/rediscovered-bioluminescent-fungus/Octospora humosa was an obscure spore-shooting... ...Octospora humosa was an obscure spore-shooting fungus , living quietly in patches of moss. Then the Gu... ...old girl beat 5,000 other entrants by dubbing the fungus "hotlips." Brotherton said he hoped the popular...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/07/31/meet-the-hotlips-fungus/The fungal cells in this picture are so small and... ...out the rigid cell wall that supposedly defines a fungus , says Tom Richards of the Natural History Museum... ...ow scientists will have to either redefine what a fungus is, or classify a new group of species that are "... ...classify a new group of spec...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/12/oldest-oddest-fungi-finally-photographed/David Dietle wrote a highly entertaining post on C... ...off with a bang with this one:#10. Bleeding Tooth FungusThe bleeding tooth fungus looks kind of like a wad of chewing gum that leak...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/31/bleeding-tooth-fungus-and-other-creepy-plants-that-shouldnt-exist/Ever wonder why our body temperature is 98.6 °F (37 °C)? Scientists at Yeshiva University discovered the answer.Turns out that our normal body temperature is the perfect balance of being warm enough to ward off f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/01/why-our-body-temperature-is-98-6-f-the-perfect-balance-between-fighting-fungal-infections-and-eating-all-the-time/Fungi come in all sizes, shapes, and colors, and their range of habits and habitats is just as diverse. It's fungi's ability to grow just about anywhere that makes it so amazing. If you name a hostile environment there'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/07/the-weird-colorful-world-of-fungi/Why did woolly mammoth go extinct? Scientists disc... ...Bas van Geel of the University of Amsterdam found fungus spores deep inside a piece of mammoth dung that c... ...ly way that can happen is if the mammoth eats the fungus , which means eating poo. Their work is in press i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/06/08/mammoth-ate-own-poo/Watch slime molds and mushrooms grow in this time-lapse video. I was particularly taken with the Stinkhorn Mushroom, which casts a net! Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/21/mushroom-madness/Sandeep Ravindran writes in Popular Science that a... ...s violin maker treated a new violin with a unique fungus . The result was that the new violin beat a Strad... ...d the ultimate winner was "Opus 58" -- one of the fungus -infected violins. 90 of the 180 attendees voted f... ...rad. The wood in "Opu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/25/simulating-a-stradivarius-with-fungus/
