After a night without witnessing the puffball move or eat, the good Samaritan rushed it to Lower Moss Wood Nature Reserve & Wildlife Hospital in Cheshire. “It was the first admission of the day.

You could mistake this week's critter, the giant puffball (Calvatia gigantea), for a soccer ball. The giant fungus can grow into a puffy white ball up to 50 cm in diameter! Giant puffballs are also ...

Other examples are given, such as spores from puffball fungi dispersing in the wind. Earthstar fungi open on the woodland floor in the autumn when drops of rain cause them to explosively erupt spores.