Paleontologists studying insects trapped in amber from 99 million years ago have made a remarkable discovery: an ant and a ...

“It’s fascinating to see some of the strangeness of the natural world that we see today was also present at the height of the ...

Scientists have made a haunting and oddly poetic discovery that shows that even tens of millions of years ago, life — and ...

But their ancient history has been a mystery, mainly because fossils rarely capture these fungi on their hosts. Now, ...

A “zombie ant” that has been infected by the parasitic fungus Complex Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. CREDIT: sdrov via iNaturalist Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

The zombie fungus, primarily from the genus Ophiocordyceps, is a parasitic fungus that infects insects, particularly ants. It takes control of the host’s behavior to ensure the fungus’s spores are ...

The name “zombie-ant” comes from this fungus’s strange and fascinating lifecycle. The specific fungus primarily resides in tropical forest ecosystems. It has been discovered in various locations ...

This Parasitic Fungus Turns Flies Into Zombie Insects The pathogen takes over the brains of its hosts and controls them for its own sinister ends. Rohini Subrahmanyam, Knowable Magazine.

The zombie-creating fungus in The Last of Us is real, but there are many other fungi to fear. Of the 5 million fungal species in the world, a few hundred are dangerous to people.

After posting images of his find online, he was told the spiders had been infected with a ‘zombie parasite’ – the entomopathogenic fungus.

This Parasitic Fungus Turns Flies Into Zombie Insects. ... De Fine Licht is keen for the zombie fly-fungus system to be ...