Yes, the fungus is among us. The video game-inspired hit zombie apocalypse show “The Last of Us” draws its inspiration from our own reality and ecology: The show’s fatal fungus exists ...

There’s a new post-apocalyptic zombie video game-turned-HBO series that your distant acquaintances are talking about — and for good reason. In “The Last of Us,” a fungus violently infects ...

The show is about how the human population fights to survive a zombie apocalypse caused by a cordyceps fungus that spreads to the brain. The concept itself is scary enough, but many viewers are ...

The zombie apocalypse depicted in the popular video game series and newly adapted HBO series “The Last of Us” derives from a mutation to a type of fungus called cordyceps. Surprise!

Scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mind-controlling fungus that creates spider "zombies" after it was stumbled ...

And then as he died, the fungus sprouted out of his body allowing the spores to spread if Corps sounds familiar. It's probably because it inspired the popular video game turned hit zombie TV ...