Mycology

One of the deadliest fungi in the world was discovered in northern Australia - thousands of miles from their native habitat in the mountains of Japan and Korea.

 The Poison Fire Coral was discovered in a suburb of the northern Australian city of Cairns by a local photographer and subsequently identified by scientists, James Cook University told AFP.

Excavation work has begun in the Ahlat Seljuk graveyard, considered the "Orkhon Inscriptions of Anatolia," in the eastern province of Bitlis. It is known as the world's largest Turkish-Islam graveyard. 

The site has 8,203 gravestones, the tallest of which are some 4.5 meters, and many are artifacts decorated with inscriptions and motifs. 

A monk on Mount Athos has become the second person in Greece since September to die from eating a poisonous mushroom.

The 63-year-old was taken to a hospital in Thessaloniki on Monday but could not be saved as he suffered massive kidney failure, according to doctors.

More than 40 people have been poisoned by wild mushrooms in Greece over the last month, one of whom has died, health authorities said on Wednesday.