Lichens cover about 6% of the world’s land surface. You’ve probably noticed them growing in the shade on rocks. The thallus of a lichen is considered the lichen’s body, not including the parts ...

Lichens represent a dynamic, self-sustaining partnership between a dominant fungus (the mycobiont) and one or more photosynthetic partners (photobionts), which can be green algae, cyanobacteria or ...

All winter, I stared at my magnolia tree’s bare branches, wishing for spring. Except, when I looked closely, I saw that the branches weren’t bare. While I waited for green leaves and pink blossoms, I ...

Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." Despite their looks, ...

Lichens are composite organisms that are formed as a result of the association of one or two races of fungi (ascomycetes or basidiomycetes) and algae whether green algae or blue green algae ...

Wenlock Edge, Shropshire: Lichen growth chronicles climatic change and the bluey-green lobes could be read like historical documents In the trash under trees battered by storms lie sticks covered with ...

Jan. 29 (UPI) --Like most lichen, reindeer lichen can reproduce both sexually and asexually, by sending out spores or simply cloning themselves. Previously, researchers assumed reindeer lichen, ...

The orange sea lichen, found on coastal rocks. Image by Rosser1954 Roger Griffith – Own work, Public Domain. Lichen from the Mojave Desert can survive, and replicate, under levels of extreme solar ...