Death cap mushrooms were in the headlines this week after an Australian woman received a life sentence for fatally poisoning some of her family members with the toxic fungus. But recent research has ...

Death cap mushrooms were at the center of an Australian murder trial. What are death cap mushrooms, and why are they so deadly?A jury in Australia has found Erin Patterson guilty on three counts of ...

California authorities are warning people not to eat foraged mushrooms for the time being after nearly two dozen people were sickened — including one fatally — by a highly poisonous mushroom known as ...

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