Some of nature’s creepiest creatures don’t just survive – they take over. In this episode, we explore the parasites that turn their hosts into real-world zombies. From mind-controlling fungi in ants ...

Mushrooms are a form of fungi that continue to be studied extensively to discover, sometimes the magic, and at other times the menace, they can unleash ...

Purple Man is one of the best Daredevil villains of all time.

turning the infected into zombies with mushrooms for faces. It’s a terrifying idea, made even more terrifying by its basis in reality: What the show portrays cordyceps doing to people, they actually ...

Deep in the humid rainforests of South America, Africa, and Asia, a remarkable biological horror story unfolds daily. Unsuspecting ants go about their normal routines until they encounter microscopic ...

Deep in the humid rainforests of South America, Africa, and Asia, a remarkable biological horror story unfolds daily. Unsuspecting ants go about their normal routines until they encounter microscopic ...

the fungus pushes a fruiting body up through the dead ant’s head, which explodes into spores, spreading the fungus to other victims.’ In The Last of Us, the infection is spread by zombies ...

Strange-looking ants being controlled by a fungus have been discovered on Jawoyn country in the Northern Territory during a Bush Blitz expedition. In the remote savanna of the Northern Territory, ...

Four Sigmatic has been in the mushroom business for over ... Cordyceps may not be able to turn humans into zombies, but they do infect insects like ants, changing and controlling their behavior ...

Mushrooms don’t typically grow on living ... pathogens like the insect-infecting fungi responsible for creating “zombie ants.” But for the most part, fungus doesn’t typically grow into ...