The zombie-producing fungus in “The Last of Us” is really ... to jump to humans — that’s definitely sci-fi,” Will told National Geographic. “But this idea that temperature plays ...

The world’s most expensive fungus Roughly sixty miles away in the city of Yushu, it’s barely 8 a.m. in the cordyceps market, but already it has the frenetic energy of a stock market trading ...

If you’re traveling to any of the Midwestern or Southeastern states this spring, you might encounter zombies — zombie ... fungal spore dissemination," according to an article in the National ...

Matt Kasson has received funding from the National Science Foundation ... starting the cycle again. The zombie cicada fungus, Massospora cicadina, has also received a lot of attention in recent ...

HBO's TV series "The Last of Us" shows a world ravaged by a "zombie fungus" that has the ability to infect and control people's minds. While human mind–controlling fungi do not yet exist in real ...

"If the fungus really wanted to infect mammals it would require millions of years of genetic changes," Araujo told National Geographic ... still not turned into a zombie.

“This is a sexually transmitted zombie disease.” The fungal parasite known as Massospora ... the university reported. National Geographic's Matt Kasson referred to infected cicadas as ...

TL;DR: A new fungus, G. attenboroughii, discovered in Northern Ireland, infects spiders, causing zombie-like effects similar to the zombie-ant fungus. It alters spider behavior to spread spores ...

A wildlife researcher in the Peruvian Amazon has discovered a tarantula infected by the "zombie fungus" Cordyceps, a rare and eerie find."It took over his nervous system and forced him to come to ...