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Cup fungus (Dasyscyphella nivea) covered in water droplets, beside Zygote fungi (Zygomycota), close up. Hertfordshire, England, UK. November. Focus stacked image.

Fungi evolved their weird and wild shapes in two big bursts

30 August 2022

The vast array of shapes that fungi can take, including colourful mushroom caps and tangles of thread-like moulds, evolved in two big bursts hundreds of millions of years ago
A large, black Newfoundland dog with drool dripping from its half open mouth

Mucus has evolved at least 15 times in mammals

26 August 2022

Mucus-producing mucin proteins have repeatedly and independently emerged in mammals, possibly through co-option of existing proteins into slime factories

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