The artifacts and antiquities on display at an eastern North Carolina museum are virtually a treasure trove of the unusual, ...

Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories.

At a town meeting last year, Beth Downs held up photos from Tennessee and Kentucky, showing stop signs and trees covered in an ugly black mold called whiskey fungus.

Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex network of filaments, or hyphae, known as the mycelium. It is even possible ...

A fungus that causes genital infections has seen a spike in cases in New York City, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports. The fungus, named Trichophyton mentagrophytes ...