The field of marine mycology (the science of studying fungi in the sea) is often overlooked, but there’s so much to discover. The fungi that live in the sea fall into two main categories.

Living in the sea has many challenges. Food availability can be patchy, leading to feast and famine conditions. Marine fungi need a range of adaptations to survive, and those isolated from the open ...

BETHESDA, Md., May 22 (UPI) -- People's feet are awash in fungi, U.S. researchers say they found 80 types of fungi on a foot's heel and 40 types on the toenails. Lead author Julie Segre, a ...

Marine fungi are either completely restricted to oceanic habitats (obligate), or able to grow there as an extension of their normal range (facultative). You can find fungi anywhere you look: mud, ...

The fungi may have colonised cavities of rock deep beneath the sea floor. Co-researcher, Magnus Ivarsson, said it would have been an extreme environment far away from sunlight.

They have no mouths with which they can eat like animals, and they can’t photosynthesize like plants. What they do have are enzymes that can break down living tissue, dead organic matter, or even rock ...

Researchers have found evidence of fungi thriving far below the floor of the Pacific Ocean, in nutrient-starved sediments more than 100 million years old. The discovery has the potential to turn ...

If moldy rock pockets in fresh-outta-snowball Earth were geographically widespread, such life would have accelerated weathering of continental rocks already underway at the surface and the ...

The researchers took samples of rock deposited during the late Permian extinctions, ... And for a brief while, microbial life may have dominated both land and sea. “If these things were fungi, ...

Before a baby sea turtle makes its way to the ocean, it has to survive the nest. But scientists have discovered that fungi can infect nests and kill up to 90 percent of eggs. Luca5 /Flickr ...

Fungi don't just live in soils and with land plants, or breaking down complex materials like wood. They also thrive in the marine environment. Inde ...