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

Zombies are real – not in the walking dead sense, but there are parasites that can hack the brains of living creatures and ...

In "The Last of Us," cordyceps — a real fungus that infects insects — evolves into a harmful pathogen for humans due to a ...

Kronstad and his colleagues, in a recent review published in Nature, warned that this evolution could lead to more human infections. Rising temperatures allow fungi to thrive in new environments — and ...

Strange-looking ants being controlled by a fungus have been discovered on Jawoyn country during a Bush Blitz expedition.

"Once the egg hatches, the ant has only a few weeks of life before it succumbs to the manipulations of its attacker, stumbling away from its home and family and then undergoing decapitation from the ...

Mindy Weisberger’s book, Rise of the Zombie Bugs, explores the sophisticated—and macabre—relationships between zombifying ...

After two long years, the highly anticipated second season of HBO’s The Last of Us is almost here. In the new season, five ...

The difference between real zombies and those in the show is that the infected ants' hyperactivity is aimed at keeping them away from others. Ants are extremely sensitive to the smell of illness ...

and its parasitic ability to infect ants with its spores and takeover its host has left scientists dubbing the incredible natural phenomenon as creating "zombie ants". Dr François Brassard ...

University of Western Australia myrmecologist Dr François Brassard found the ants, which had been parasitised, possessed and then consumed by a fungus, while on an expedition as part of the Bush ...