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 ...

The Last Of Us has mad audiences wary of eating mushrooms, but how realistic are the cordyceps spores shown on the hit HBO ...

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 ...

When The Last of Us Part II came out on the PlayStation 3 in 2020, there was a big backlash against the game. Fans put ...

In The Last of Us‘ universe, spores grow fungus in ... Those at this stage of infection also may prop themselves up near a wall and allow the fungus to grow into it. They can then pop out ...

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 ...

Gusa acknowledged the parallel to "The Last of Us." While she said there's no ... than people that don't." But if that mold peels off a wall and starts chasing you, safe to say you've got the ...

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.

Research lead Dr. Norman van Rhijn referenced hit show The Last of Us, which is about a fungal infection causing an apocalypse, saying “reality is already scary enough” A type of fungus that ...