Indian scientists on a nature walk through the foothills of the Western Ghats came across an unexpected discovery: a living frog that seemed to have a mushroom sprouting from its back.

Combine that with a frog’s dewy skin and it could be the perfect storm for mushroom growth, she said. Although experts agree that more information is needed to draw conclusions, they said that ...

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 ...

The finding marks the first ever time a mushroom has been spotted growing on live animal tissue, researchers affiliated with the World Wildlife Fund say. Since the frog was not captured to be ...

“When I first observed the frog with the mushroom, I was amazed and intrigued by the sight,” said Lohit Y T, a rivers and wetlands specialist with World Wildlife Fund-India in ...