A newly discovered mushroom species "lives in the rain forest, under a tree," and researchers say it's nearly as strange as its SpongeBob SquarePants namesake. Shaped like a sea sponge, the bright ...

And he doesn’t wear pants! (Ahem.) Neither does ‘it’ live in the sea. But scientists were so fascinated by its shape and spongy appearance they named it Spongiforma squarepantsii after the insanely ...

What does a scientist do when faced with the task of naming a newly discovered, spongelike orange fungus from a tropical rain forest in Malaysia? Why, name it after the cartoon character SpongeBob ...

Scientists have named a newly discovered species of mushroom after the popular cartoon character Spongebob Squarepants. BBC News reports that the new species of fungus has been named Spongiforma ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of mushroom in Borneo which, given its appearance, has been named after SpongeBob Squarepants. Dennis E. Desjardin, a world-roaming mycologist, has just ...

“It lives in a rainforest, under a tree…” Scientists have discovered a new fungus growing in the jungle and have named it after Spongebob. “Shaped like a sea sponge, the bright orange (and sometimes ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A scientist has made a startling discovery in the forests of Borneo — a mushroom that looks almost exactly like a sponge. It was so strange that San Francisco State University ...

You can find all the porcini you want in your supermarket, but don't go looking for the mushroom's distant cousin, Spongiforma squarepantsii, because the newly discovered species can only be found in ...