Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a ...

A piece of 99 million-year-old amber has revealed a shocking sight. It’s a fly with a zombie fungus growing from its head.

Paleontologists studying insects trapped in amber from 99 million years ago have made a remarkable discovery: an ant and a ...

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

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

Now, scientists have uncovered two new ancient species from the dinosaur era, beautifully preserved in amber. These fungi ...

Using machine learning to predict protein-protein interactions between a zombie ant fungus and its carpenter ant host. Sci Rep. 2023;13(1):13821. de Bekker C, et al. Species-specific ant brain ...

In the case of carpenter ants, the spore of the Ophiocordyceps fungus lands on the head of an ant, enters its brain through a weak area in the insect’s exoskeleton and takes control of the ant ...

In the case of carpenter ants, the spore of the Ophiocordyceps fungus lands on the head of an ant, enters its brain through a weak area in the insect’s exoskeleton and takes control of the ant ...

In the case of carpenter ants, the spore of the Ophiocordyceps fungus lands on the head of an ant, enters its brain through a weak area in the insect’s exoskeleton and takes control of the ant ...

When Entomophaga grylli infects locusts or grasshoppers, they climb to the tops of plants before their death. The zombie-ant ...

Finally, the fungus causes the ant to climb up a plant and lock onto a leaf or a stem with its jaws – a behavior called summiting. The fungus changes into a new phase and consumes the ant’s organs, ...