When observing a hoard of golden-backed frogs at a roadside pond in Karnataka, India, a group of naturalists noticed something odd about one of the amphibians — the animal had a tiny mushroom ...

A small mushroom grows from the side of a Rao's intermediate golden-backed frog. You’ve heard of a toadstool, but now there’s something much stranger: a frog mushroom. Researchers in India came across ...

The cordyceps fungus of "The Last of Us" may not pose a real risk of zombie-fying humankind, but can the same be said of our amphibian friends? Indian scientists on a nature walk through the foothills ...

On a nature walk with friends, an Indian scientist uncovered something astounding — a frog that seemed to have a mushroom growing out of its back. In an interview with the New York Times, Lohit Y.T., ...

Scientists have made a baffling discovery of a frog with a small mushroom sprouting from its leg in the lush foothills of India’s Western Ghats. The finding marks the first ever time a mushroom has ...

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