A common midwife toad in the Pyrenees, carrying his developing offspring. (Phillip Jervis) Across the world, entire species ...

The fungus has another unusual means of spread: Cats can sneeze out infectious yeast, researchers reported in Medical Mycology in 2022. “When the cat’s sneezing, it’s going on the surface, it’s going ...

Common midwife toads survive deadly fungus when their immune defenses develop early, revealing hope for amphibian survival ...

The mystery of why some amphibian populations recover following outbreaks of a deadly fungus has been solved in a new study ...

Candida auris cases more than doubled from 2022 to 2024, CDC reports. How much of the rise in this drug-resistant fungus is real spread, and how much better detection?

Scientists say the "hyperparasite" preys on "zombie fungus" known to infect insects before subjecting them to a gruesome death.

Panama's beloved golden frog vanished from the wild nearly two decades ago, wiped out by a fungal disease that still lurks in the very streams scientists now want to restore it to. A new experiment ...

A warning this week by researchers at the CDC, about the spread of the potentially lethal fungus across the U.S., highlights the threat of other potentially dangerous fungal pathogens you’ve probably ...

Cladosporium sphaerospermum, cultured at the Coimbra University Hospital Centre in Portugal. (Rui Tomé/Atlas of Mycology, used with permission) The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans ...

Pioneering chimpanzee experiments revealed advanced intelligence and problem-solving skills. These apes demonstrated insight, ...