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 ...

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, ...

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 ...