A single organism in eastern Oregon has been quietly consuming a forest for an estimated 2,400 years, and it now ranks as the ...

Here’s a fun fact: The world’s largest organism isn’t a well-fed elephant or a blue whale or even a giant sequoia. It’s a fungus. A Facebook post from July 20 about the Armillaria is one of the latest ...

Deep in the loamy soil of forests around the world, there exists a fungus called the honey mushroom that makes its living on death. A parasite that preys on weak trees, it sucks its victims dry of ...

Nicknamed the “Humongous Fungus,” this ancient lifeform stretches across more than 2,000 acres of forest floor, yet remains almost entirely hidden from sight. It’s not a tree, not an animal, but a ...

Atop a low ridge in the heart of Oregon's Blue Mountains, Michael McWilliams pushes through brittle branches and scrambles over toppled logs and decay. Bare trunks tower overhead, but the U.S. Forest ...

Armillaria ostoyae is a gnarly parasitic fungus with long black tentacles that spread out and attack vegetation. Not much was known about what makes fungus so hard to kill -- until now. A team of ...