A week of rain capped by a deluge from slow-moving thunderstorms brought seven mudslides into the Middle Fork Valley in the San Juan Mountains. The same rains triggered the appearance of many species ...

This article was originally published in December 2021. Amanita Muscaria is an understudied species of psychoactive mushroom that’s as commonplace as it is misunderstood. The iconic red-capped, ...

Often featured in fairytales, the red toadstool mushroom fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) is toxic to humans and many animals. However, experts have observed that Japanese squirrels can safely eat ...

MADISON - If Lewis Carroll had described in detail the mushroom Alice nibbles in Wonderland to shrink and grow to her rightful size, he might have noted a scarlet cap topped with white warts: the fly ...

Researchers show that gene loss -- not the evolution of new genes -- helped drive the fly amanita mushroom into its symbiotic relationship with plants. If Lewis Carroll had described in detail the ...