Alternatively, the fungus's presence and physiological changes in the fly may trigger the fly's own ... have inspired popular ...

Student journalist Taryn Pollock explains what the ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus is and why it is commonly called the ...

While Ophiocordyceps is likely the best-known zombie fungus, it’s certainly not the only one ... Yet these reports had largely fallen into obscurity, and this fungus-fly pair would await rediscovery ...

But the zombie fungus makes males flick their wings for ... “Like it tries to mate, it flies around, it walks on plants. Yet, a third of its body has been replaced by fungus.

The newly discovered species, named Gibellula attenboroughii, acts in a similar way as the zombie ant fungus, seemingly manipulating its prey to move to a more suitable spot for the fungus to ...

Well, we are sorry to say that something freaky and fungus related is happening in London right now. It’s probably nothing to worry about... Something that scientists are calling ‘zombie ...

Chinese factories are producing thousands of tonnes of a "green zombie fungus" to help fight the swarms of locusts plaguing east Africa. Metarhizium is a genus of fungi with nearly 50 species ...

In this podcast, student journalist Taryn Pollock explains what the ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus is and why it is commonly called the Zombie ant-virus. Taryn Pollock is a student at South ...

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