ancient ants were already in the agriculture business. Over time, leafcutter ants have evolved a complex system of agriculture in their nests, cultivating bumper crops of fungi that are the ants ...

researchers describe a fungus they discovered in a billion-year-old bed of shale rock in the Northern Territories area of Canada, which they named Ourasphaira giraldae. The ancient fungus is the ...

"We are really the only one of those in Canada for fungi," he said, adding that it's used by Canadian researchers from industry, public health labs and colleges and universities. It's also billed ...

The excellent preservation of all developmental stages of the carnivorous fungus in amber allowed reconstruction ... Moving in the ancient soil, a nematode became trapped by a hyphal ring (middle).

Canada set to lose irreplaceable 'treasure trove' of fungi Bats are under threat from ... syndrome], it will probably be much worse than in eastern North America," Xu said. Over the course of ...