Lichens and mosses live everywhere they can! They prefer moist areas, and happily live in aquatic and marine environments. By the ocean, lichen forms vivid orange streaks on sea-side rocks. In ...

When visitors come to explore Great Smoky Mountains National Park, they have access to a wealth of knowledge highlighting the diversity of plants, animals, and ecosystems found in this special place.

Go ahead, step into the woods. Try a trail or the edges of a meadow, maybe, at Mohegan Park north of Norwich, or in a woodland near you. A frontier of marvels fans out ahead, spangled with mystery.

Lichens are complex organisms, created by a mutually beneficial relationship between fungus and either algae or cyanobacteria. Lichens can display a wide variety of forms and colors, and you've ...

A group of researchers supported by FAPESP has confirmed the identity of the first lichens to inhabit Earth, Spongiophyton, around 410 million years ago, in great detail for the first time. Lichens ...

Why devote a decade to documenting the lichens of Great Smoky Mountains National Park? After nearly 100 years of study, the consensus by the 21st century was that the lichens of the Smokies were a ...

A phone call to the Pentagon to talk about lichens gets a better response than one might expect. There’s no deputy assistant undersecretary for fungal/algal composite organisms, but the Air Force does ...