The real-life horror of cordyceps: nature's zombie-making fungi
Wind carries the spores to infect more unwary caterpillars. The horrifying capabilities of Cordyceps fungi have inspired ...
Baldur's Gate 3 player summons roughly 88 minions to conquer Honour Mode with a glorious army of spore zombies, elementals, and Scratch the best boy
In total, Real-Business6593 has summoned (by my count) 60 summons baseline. Which, if their counting of spore zombies is to ...
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Newly discovered fungus turns cave-dwelling spiders into ‘zombies’
The newly discovered species, named Gibellula attenboroughii, acts in a similar way as the zombie ant fungus ... which helps spread its spores, said Araújo, who is also an honorary research ...
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The Last of Us Season 2 trailer finally confirms return of important game lore
Spores were missing from the first season of the HBO show, but the new trailer for The Last of Us Season 2 confirms they’ll ...
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Zombie Fungi Hijack Hosts’ Brains
Instead, they have become “zombies,” controlled by barely visible fungal puppet masters that direct the insects’ behaviors, steering them into optimal conditions for dispersing infectious spores.
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Behold the fungus that turns spiders into zombies and marches them to their deaths
The scientists theorize the spores are then carried on the breeze, raining down upon other, unwitting spiders. Can the fungus in the HBO series The Last of Us turn humans into zombies one day?