Sneaky chemistry by a real-life “Last of Us” Cordyceps fungus mind controls its zombie insect victims by convincing them they’re starving.

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a ...

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

Before humans even walked on th earth, a fungus was creating zombies. Scientists have uncovered a haunting scene frozen in 99 ...

This week, see zombie fungi trapped in an amber fossil, explore the sun’s hidden south pole, meet tool-using whales that ...

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some ...

These insects are thought to be around 99 million years old, making them the oldest known examples of this fungal-parasitic infection.Yuhui Zhuang is a doctoral student at Yunnan University and the co ...

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 ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body ...

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

Did you know that a small molecule called NAD+ plays a critical role in our aging process? A deficiency of this molecule may ...