Galerina mushrooms, often called little brown mushrooms, are widespread and highly toxic — found on rotting logs, they should ...

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 ...

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 ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — An Australian woman accused of murdering three of her estranged husband’s relatives with poisonous mushrooms told a court on Tuesday she accepted that the fatal lunch ...

A woman who poisoned four family members, killing three of them, is facing life in prison after a jury found her guilty of murder-by-mushrooms. Erin Patterson invited her estranged husband’s mother, ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Prof. Anne Pringle, a mycologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, about the latest research on death cap mushrooms, revealing new information about the enigmatic ...