Taylor Lockwood is a mushroom hunter and photographer who has presented his work at shows throughout the world for over twenty-five years and has archived his photographs on the site Mushroom.Pro.

Bioluminescence is a chemical process where living organisms generate light. Jellyfish, fireflies, fungi, and more are all known to emit their very own glow. The Greek philosopher Aristotle observed ...

If you go out on a dark night, preferably during a new moon, in certain forests in northeastern Brazil you may find something peculiar: large glowing mushrooms. These pale-beige, slightly ruffled ...

While we have a sound understanding of insects, sea creatures, and even frogs — we've been bemused by bioluminescent fungi until now. Researchers from Russia, Japan, and Brazil have finally pinned ...

The stars, the sun, lamps and fireflies all shine brightly. But few realize mushrooms do too and now researchers have discovered why. https://p.dw.com/p/1EyZZ ...

Ornamental house plants with sustainably glowing leaves and flowers are now one step closer to reality, thanks to a breakthrough in which scientists leveraged the bioluminescent powers of mushrooms.

If you think you see a glowing mushroom, you might not be having a psychedelic hallucination. Some mushrooms indeed are bioluminescent, including one that sprouts among decaying leaves at the base of ...

Most mushrooms grow in the dark, but some also glow in the dark, and researchers say they've discovered how they do it — and why. For thousands of years people have seen a glow often described as ...

We’ve all seen the movie Avatar — it’s one of the finest pieces of cinematic art ever to grace the silver screen and nobody debates this — and if there’s one thing you’ll remember about the ...

Aristotle (384–322 BC) reported a mysterious light, distinct from fire, emanating from decaying wood. Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) mentioned feasting on a glowing, sweet fungus found on trees in France ...

N. gardneri mushrooms grow at the base of young babassu palms in Brazil. A bland tan by day, the fungi emit an eerie green light by night. A team of scientists recently created some fake, glowing ...