The specimens were discovered by researchers at Yunnan University in China, who used microscopes and 3D imaging to study the ...

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

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

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

The study, led by Zhuang, used 3D scans and microscopes to analyse the fossils. Zhuang said the find is rare and helps us ...

Parasitic fungi have been with us since at least the Cretaceous period zombifying insects according to a new study of fossils ...

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

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

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

The infestation of generative systems in education, medicine and academia should all be cause for much, much more alarm.

Ophiocordyceps are named because they infect the brain of their hosts to then manipulate the ant’s behaviour. Zombie-ant ...

The fossil fungi are from the same family as Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, also known as the zombie-ant fungus, which has gained widespread recognition as the inspiration behind the popular ...