The mind-controlling “zombie” fungus, which inspired the video game and post-apocalyptic TV show The Last of Us, emerged about 133 million years ago when dinosaurs roamed Earth, research has found. In ...

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 ...

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

A dreaded fungus known to inhabit tombs has been reconstituted as a treatment for leukemia and is performing as effectively ...

Some of the most intriguing science fiction springs from eerie, real-life phenomena. Case in point, the mutant parasite in the video game series “The Last of Us.” ...

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 ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body ...

In fact, each of the three sea spider species collected for the study were from different areas off the coast of Southern California and Alaska — a clue that the populations are highly localized.

DETROIT, MI - Prosecutors and defense attorneys are negotiating a plea deal for the Chinese scholar at University of Michigan accused of smuggling a harmful fungus into the United States.

The spiders weren’t slurping up the gas directly, but they were consuming the tiny methane-oxidising bacteria that live on their exoskeletons. In other words, the sea spiders may be farming food ...