‘Look!” I exclaimed, bending to examine a pair of ½-inch-tall, bright orange, club-shaped mushrooms. Kneeling in the leaf litter, with my 2-year-old son watching in puzzlement, I carefully scraped ...

A zombie ant, a pair of bats and a gorilla lurked around the shadiest alcoves of a Cook County forest preserve on Saturday, scouring the earth for decomposing life forms. But the pack of monsters wasn ...

When amateur photographer Natacha Issler visited a historic tourist village with her parents, something unusual caught her mother's eye. "We were walking around the ruins of the former mill," she said ...

Editor's note -- Preface -- 1. How to use this book -- 2. Mushrooms are fungi -- 3. Mushroom poisoning -- pt. 1. Non-gilled mushrooms -- 4. Sac fungi : Ascomycetes -- Miscellaneous sac and cup fungi - ...