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

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 ...

Leafcutter ant colonies, celebrated for their rigid division of labour, have yielded a startling secret: their roles can be ...

Hoarding, in the animal kingdom, is a strategy that has been perfected over millions of years. It is not just a survival ...

Need a mobile home? An incubation chamber? Dinner? Hundreds of species have hit on an elegant solution: find a nice juicy ...

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

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

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

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

The Last of Us zombie fungus hijacked minds even as early as dinosaur era, scientists find - Fungal fossils trapped in amber ...