The study also revealed the emergence of an ancestor of coral fungi, a second group that began to be cultivated by ants 21 million years ago. The fungus gets its name from the fact that it forms ...

The mechanism behind the movement of a free-living coral that moves towards the light has been finally decoded. Cycloseris cyclolites, a free-living mushroom coral species, responds to specific ...

It can produce its own food, but also takes up to half of its food budget from fungi. Occasionally, it can grow some strange coral-shaped rootstalks. According to Suetsugu, this trait is more ...