LSD was first synthesized in 1938 by a chemist, Albert Hoffman, who studied ergot fungus infested with grain ears. In the image below, the ergot that protrudes black from the ears of wheat is the ...

Analysis of a 100-million-year-old grass specimen by researchers at Oregon State University identified a fungus growing on it that's similar to ergot, from which LSD is derived. Grass-eating dinosaurs ...

Millions of years before LSD and rock and roll, dinosaurs munched on psychedelic fungus, a new study suggests. The hints that dinos got high come from the first amber fossil ever found of ergot, a ...

Nearly 60 years ago, a French town was hit by a sudden outbreak of hallucinations, which left five people dead and many seriously ill. For years it was blamed on bread contaminated with a psychedelic ...

A new discovery of amber fossil has linked the earliest grasses, dinosaurs and fungus used to produce LSD. A perfectly preserved amber fossil from Myanmar has been found that provides evidence of the ...