Grew on the skin. A mushroom found in the forest shocked scientists

MOSCOW, February 20 For the first time, a living frog on which a fungus grows has been discovered in the jungles of India, zoologists Chinmay Maliye and Wai T Lohith reported in an article for the scientific journal Reptiles & Amphibians.
Biologists made an unusual discovery in a forest in Karnataka in the summer of 2023. On the left side of a living specimen of the narrow-headed frog Rao, the fruiting body of a mushroom from the genus Mycenae was discovered.
“As far as we know, it has never been possible to record a mushroom that would grow from the side of a living frog,” the researchers assessed the importance of the find.

The article states that a mushroom grown on an animal is usually found on rotting wood.

Scientists have recalled the existence of parasitic fungi that cause diseases in amphibians. However, the discovered frog seemed to zoologists to be “alive and active”