A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

A jury is deliberating for a second day in the murder trial of an Australian woman accused of killing her estranged husband’s ...

A jury in Australia began deliberations Monday in the triple murder trial of Erin Patterson, accused of killing her estranged husband’s relatives by deliberately serving them poisonous mushrooms ...

Death cap (Amanita phalloides) is a deadly poisonous mushroom from the Amanita genus. Originally native to Europe, it was first confirmed in Australia in the 1960s in Canberra, with later ...

Symptoms of mushroom poisoning include severe stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, which can take several hours to appear and progress to life-threatening liver failure. “Don’t wait ...

A baby death cap and a full grown death cap mushroom. Picture: Sarah Matray “I can’t be clearer – don’t eat wild mushrooms,” she said.

An Australian mother of two stands accused of murdering three family members by poisoning them with deadly fungi. Erin Patterson is on trial for the killing of the parents of her husband, whom she ...