Alien life might survive “uninhabitable” environments by simply changing them, suggests a recent study of — bizarrely enough — a fungus that grows on book covers in climate-controlled libraries. “Life ...

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A rare alien-looking fungus that smells of rotting flesh has been discovered by a woman out hiking on Dartmoor. Known as Octopus Stinkhorn and the Devil's fingers fungus, it is native to New Zealand ...