In 1991 a 5,000-year-old corpse was found in a glacier in the Ötztal Alps of Italy. The oldest natural human mummy ever found in Europe, the Iceman, or Otzi, became famous for the glimpse he gave us ...

When scientists and archaeologists examined the body of Otzi the Iceman - a 5,300-year-old natural mummy discovered in the Italian Alps in 1991 - they found birch polypore mushrooms among his ...

Tell me about the hat you’re wearing. It’s made from a birch polypore mushroom. Our ancestors realised that you could get this tough bracket fungus off birch trees, hollow it out and put fire in it ...

For many of us, our only contact with wild mushrooms is in the search for the “popinki,” the edible pinkish mushroom much beloved not only by Slovaks, like my mom, but many local wild food aficiandos.

It ages me to think that my current students were just a twinkling in their parent’s eye when Otzi the Iceman was discovered - almost 30 years ago - but it seems like yesterday. I remember when this ...

The fall season is my favorite time of year to get out into area woodlands and natural areas and explore the fascinating world of mushrooms and other fungi. During fall and early winter, you'll ...