The spore-bearing surface is hard to find, even in birch stands in which the sterile conks abound, because they are small, short-lived and often eaten by insects. The clinker polypore causes ...

It ages me to think that my current students were just a twinkling in their parent’s eye when Otzi the Iceman was discovered - almost 30 years ago - but it seems like yesterday. I remember when this ...

If you’ve ever stopped to admire a birch tree, you may unknowingly have something in common with a 5,300-year-old mummy called Ötzi. In 1991, hikers found Ötzi in an alpine glacier on the ...

If you’ve ever stopped to admire a birch tree, you may unknowingly have something in common with a 5,300-year-old mummy called Ötzi. In 1991, hikers found Ötzi in an alpine glacier on the ...

In 1991 a 5,000-year-old corpse was found in a glacier in the Ötztal Alps of Italy. The oldest natural human mummy ever found in Europe, the Iceman, or Otzi, became famous for the glimpse he gave us ...