Four people have died and three others have required liver transplants after eating the aptly named death cap mushroom that is proliferating in California following a rainy winter. The California ...

Move over Hollywood — California’s latest horror hit isn’t on the screen, it’s sprouting from the forest floor. A freak weather-fueled super-bloom of Death Cap mushrooms — the world’s most infamous ...

The death cap mushroom is one of the most poisonous mushrooms, leading to diarrhea, vomiting, liver damage and even death for those who eat it. (Agorastos Papatsanis) An exceptionally wet December ...