You can’t blame home gardeners for freaking out when they see the Devil’s Fingers, sprouting from the mulch like a literal red right hand slick with putrid black goo. Recently, a photo of the ...

That's not the sound the Clathrus archeri fungus makes when it erupts from its egg-sack. But it sure seems like it should be. When the squid-like stinkhorn fungus raises its gloopy, toothed arms to ...

Take a long look at this horrifying mushroom. This is a clathrus archeri fungus, known as the ‘octopus stinkhorn’, ‘phalloid fungus’ and ‘devil’s fingers’, and it has just been spotted growing in the ...