A rare alien-looking fungus that smells of rotting flesh has been discovered by a woman out hiking on Dartmoor. Known as Octopus Stinkhorn and the Devil's fingers fungus, it is native to New Zealand ...

Kansas City is used to rainy spring days, but with so much rain in the forecast, you may have noticed something strange popping up on some of your trees. It’s an orange or red, alien-looking form, ...

Alien life might survive “uninhabitable” environments by simply changing them, suggests a recent study of — bizarrely enough — a fungus that grows on book covers in climate-controlled libraries. “Life ...