Sharks soon began to increase in size once again, and continued to evolve larger forms throughout the Palaeogene (66 to 23 million years ago). It was during this time that Otodus obliquus, the ...

The oldest definitive ancestor of megalodon is a 55-million-year-old shark known as Otodus obliquus, which grew to around 10 metres in length. But the evolutionary history of this shark is thought to ...

Small start-up companies are making large volumes of graphene, the world's thinnest material, for applications such as composites and electrodes. The exceptional electrical properties of graphene ...

One of the uglier mushrooms to find on trees, Chaga fungus (Inonotus obliquus), looks like a dark, crusty, rough bump jutting ...

Consumption of Turkey tail mushrooms can help improve digestion. Chaga mushrooms (Inonotus Obliquus) are very common in winter and inhibit the birch tree as a fungus. They are parasitic black ...