“If you see any image of the woods in any children’s book, you’ll probably see mushrooms,” author and illustrator Elise Gravel tells me over the phone from her home in Montreal. “We just love drawing ...

Most of us were told the same thing about wild mushrooms when we were growing up: Don’t touch! Times are changing, however, and so is our connection to fungi. As Coloradans come around on the power of ...

Introducing Dendrogramma, a deep sea creature that resembles a mushroom but has more affinity to a jellyfish. Photo: Just et al., PLOS ONE The deep sea harbors a rogues' gallery of outlandish ...