A new HBO hit show, called The Last of Us, is gaining popularity and possibly inspiring a fear of fungi. In the show, a species of fungus infects humans and turns them into living zombies who then ...

Zombies are real – not in the walking dead sense, but there are parasites that can hack the brains of living creatures and force them to do things against their will, with the goal of spreading the ...

The zombies are identifiable by the fungi bursting from their bodies: a thicket of spiky tendrils, a miniature garden of mushroom-like fruiting bodies. These fungal parasites act as puppeteers, ...

What if we told you the zombie apocalypse - at least for ants - is already real? In this video, we explore the real-life ...

In one episode, a swarm of formerly human mutants emerge from a suburban crater with faces that seem to have burst outward into the kind of mushroomy blossoms you’d find under a log in the forest.

There are currently 100 known Ophiocordyceps species that have the ability to infect a number of insects, however only 35 have been found to have the ability to take control of the insects' minds and ...

The undead monsters we know from movies and TV are distortions of a figure with roots in the religious practices of Haiti. By Farah Nayeri Reporting from Paris One of Amazon’s best-selling Halloween ...

HBO's TV series "The Last of Us" shows a world ravaged by a "zombie fungus" that has the ability to infect and control people's minds. While human mind–controlling fungi do not yet exist in real life, ...