The mind-controlling “zombie” fungus, which served as the inspiration for the video game and post-apocalyptic TV show The ...

In the video game The Last of Us and its spin-off HBO series, humans fight to survive against cordyceps, a parasitic fungus ...

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

Parasitic fungi have been with us since at least the Cretaceous period zombifying insects according to a new study of fossils ...

The mind-controlling “zombie” fungus, which inspired the video game and post-apocalyptic TV show The Last of Us, emerged ...

The mind-controlling “zombie” fungus, which served as the inspiration for the video game and post-apocalyptic TV show The Last of Us, emerged about 133 million years ago when dinosaurs roamed Earth, a ...

Today, parasitic fungi, also known as entomopathogenic fungi, infect a wide range of insect groups, including ants, flies, spiders, cicadas and beetles, according to London’s Natural History Museum.

Some Ophiocordyceps species that prey on ant species today are known as “zombie-ant fungi” because the fungal parasite can manipulate the behavior of its hosts for its own benefit. The phenomenon ...