Tibetan Plateau, a rare fungus grows inside dead caterpillars. In traditional Chinese medicine, this parasitic fungus is ...

Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their ...

The parasitic fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, commonly known as the zombie-ant fungus, infects ants and manipulates their ...

Untangling the complex disease cycles of parasitic fungi is at the core of what mycologists do. Zombie storylines like most myco-fiction, even those based on real life behavior-modifying fungi ...

And the cycle starts all over. Discovered more than 160 years ago, the fungus’s actions are as mind-boggling as they are macabre. Scientists have long wondered: How does the fungus manage to ...

In reality, "zombie-ant fungus" or Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, is a parasitic fungus that infects and manipulates the behavior of carpenter ants, ultimately leading to their death. Dr. Jim ...

A new study tracks the proliferation of fungal pathogens among various climate change scenarios—and it’s not good news.

Aspergillus flavus has also been known to infect crops, “posing a potential threat to food security,” CNN reports. Warming ...

Among the species digitised by the Kew team is Gibellula attenboroughii - or David Attenborough's "zombie fungus" - named ...