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Just in time for Halloween, there's an ultra-creepy fungus growing in New York State that would fit right in with Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees. "Technically, anything is safe to eat once", the ...

Fungi are a group of organisms that include yeasts, molds, and mushrooms. They exhibit astonishing methods for survival and remarkable appearances, including those that ooze blood-like sap, mimic ...

A peculiar species of fungus native to much of Canada, known by the scientific name of Hydnellum peckii, has many bizarre colloquial names like "the bleeding tooth fungus" and "the Devil's tooth ...

Unlike the drops in 'The Batman', Bliss isn't fiction. These bizarre-looking mushrooms shown in 'The Penguin' are real. Scientifically known as Hydnellum peckii, their white cap ooze red droplets that ...

One of the workers in The Penguin drug lab explains that the white mushroom, oozing little red dots on its cap is a basidiospore – reproductive cells produced by a fungus, in this case a mushroom – ...

Hydnellum peckii is the scientific name. Bleeding Tooth is a particularly striking fungus thanks to the contrast of the pinkish-white cap and the vivid crimson fluid they excrete. Here's where ...