When The Last of Us first appeared on screens, it wasn't only the story that had viewers in its clutches — it was the horrifying possibility: What if this really did happen? A world where a fungal mut ...

Warmer temperatures caused by climate change are increasing the environment where fungus, which can cause lung infections in humans, thrives ...

The hit TV series, ‘The Last of Us’, has captured the world’s imagination with its terrifying story of a zombie apocalypse caused by a mind-controlling fungus. In the show, a mutated fungus ...

Dina fills in some blanks about her past. Ellie finds the first of her intended targets.

There he encounters several people whose bodies have been taken over by it, turning them into creepy, mindless mushroom zombies – much like how the cordyceps fungus in The Last of Us reanimates ...

Sex-crazed cicada Brood XIV will be emerging from their subterranean sleep pods extra hungry for love thanks to the spread of ...

The outbreak that causes the entire world to collapse in The Last of Us comes from a mutated strain of the Cordyceps fungus, and our non-zombie zombies come from this fungus and the infection it ...

The setup for The Last of Us video game and TV series involves a fungus that evolves due to climate change to infect swathes ...

This story contains many spoilers for “The Last of Us” Season 2, Episode 6. The infected have learned to stalk and sprint. The Cordyceps fungus is now airborne. And Joel (Pedro Pascal ...

Their findings suggest that rising temperatures due to climate change could expand the fungus’s habitat by 77% by 2100. For fans of The Last of Us, this hits a little too close to home.