The hallucinogenic properties possessed by certain types of mushrooms have achieved significant notoriety thanks to counterculture movements and ancient medicinal practices. More than 200 mushroom ...

Aug. 27—The gravel road stretched before us as it did every morning, a straight shot down a steep hill. Beech trees lined the margins, their branches stretching out to offer some dappled shade during ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have long linked the mass extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago to a meteor that crashed into the Earth. The ...

AUSTIN, Texas — For the people who are fascinated by mushrooms, or for the scientists who study them, it’s one of the strangest ones of all. Known by its Latin name as Chorioactis geaster, the ...

Fungi are already perplexing. They’re not animal nor plant but provide crucial support to both, while serving as one of the planet’s main decomposers. But the fruiting bodies of fungi, widely known as ...

Magic mushrooms, an informal group of fungi that contain the naturally occurring psychedelic substance psilocybin, are known for inducing powerful hallucinations. They can induce feelings of euphoria, ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct identification of a mushroom in the story’s main photo caption and to correct a misspelling of Jon Sommer’s name. Fungi are already perplexing.