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 ...

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Ahead of the return of the hit fungus-zombie horror series The Last of Us, scientists announced the discovery of a species of fungus that ...

Scientists say the behaviour of the fungus mirrors that of ants infected by fungi of the genus Ophiocordyceps, previously reported from the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil. The story of the "zombie ants ...

Tim Fogg walked past the zombie spider fungus many times over the years before he learned what it actually was. As someone who explores caves for a living, Fogg would often see little globs of ...

It may not be real enough to give you sleepless nights and ignite apocalypse contingencies, but a fungus controlling the mind of its host like a zombie to spread is very real. The difference is ...

But National Geographic reassures us that people ... an expert on parasitic fungi at the New York Botanical Garden]. Each zombie-creating fungus species evolved to match a specific insect, so ...

Scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mind-controlling fungus that creates spider "zombies" after it was stumbled upon in a Victorian gunpowder store on the grounds of a destroyed Irish ...

While filming a TV documentary inside an old Victorian gunpowder store in Northern Ireland, scientists made an intriguing ...

A wildlife researcher in the Peruvian Amazon has discovered a tarantula infected by the "zombie fungus" Cordyceps, a rare and ...

Scientists say the behaviour of the fungus mirrors that of ants infected by fungi of the genus Ophiocordyceps, previously reported from the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil. The story of the "zombie ...

Scientists say the behaviour of the fungus mirrors that of ants infected by fungi of the genus Ophiocordyceps, previously reported from the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil. The story of the "zombie ...