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

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

Scientists have caught ancient parasitic fungi in the act of bursting from insect hosts, in dramatic scenes frozen in amber.

A 99 million-year-old amber fossil reveals a fly infected by a zombie fungus, alongside a young ant with a similar infection.

The study, led by Zhuang, used 3D scans and microscopes to analyse the fossils. Zhuang said the find is rare and helps us ...

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

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

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

The popular video game and television franchise "The Last of Us" features a post-apocalyptic world where humans are infected by Cordyceps – a fungus that infects the brain and body, turning its hosts ...

Two bits of amber discovered in a lab basement hold ancient evidence of a fungi famous for controlling the minds of its victims.

Researchers studying 99-million-year-old amber from Myanmar have discovered two insects killed by a rare type of fungus. One ...