This is the first part of Rob Zimmer's Wildlife in Winter series that will continue all season long. Learn all about the wonders of wildife in winter, as well as some of the best places to view winter ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fall season is my favorite time of year to get out into area woodlands and natural areas and explore the fascinating world of mushrooms and other fungi. During fall and early winter, you'll ...

Most people associate mushrooms with late summer and autumn, when many colorful species seem to magically emerge overnight from the moist leaf litter in our forests, only to decay and disappear a few ...

When scientists and archaeologists examined the body of Otzi the Iceman - a 5,300-year-old natural mummy discovered in the Italian Alps in 1991 - they found birch polypore mushrooms among his ...

According to the calendar, winter began with the winter solstice of Dec. 21. It will end at the time of the vernal equinox March 21. As we travel through these days of the cold season, we might note ...

Tell me about the hat you’re wearing. It’s made from a birch polypore mushroom. Our ancestors realised that you could get this tough bracket fungus off birch trees, hollow it out and put fire in it ...

Red-belted polypore - the name trips off the tongue. I was out in the woods the other day and found a beautiful medium-sized specimen growing out of a long dead log. This was a red-belted polypore, a ...

Red-belted polypore - the name trips off the tongue. I was out in the woods the other day and found a beautiful medium-sized specimen growing out of a long dead log. This was a red-belted polypore, a ...