BEFORE being adapted into a smash hit TV show, The Last Of Us started out as a wildly successful series of video games, with ...

"Zombie spiders" have now joined tarantulas in the UK, according to researchers. Sightings have been made of newly discovered fungus crazy creatures in the country. The white-foamed spiders are ...

Sir David Attenborough thereby coined this disease struck creature as the Gibellula attenboroughii, a disease where the ...

The shear diversity of fungi in the world is estimated at 6.2 million species. That is 16 times the number of plant species ...

Kronstad and his colleagues, in a recent review published in Nature, warned that this evolution could lead to more human ...

A breakthrough study by Montana State University researchers unveils an organic substance that could someday be used as a building material.

There are thousands of species of fungus in the city, with names like American dyeball, dingy twiglet and devil’s dipstick.

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

Learn about the real-life Cordyceps fungus behind The Last of Us. Discover how it acts, why it targets insects, and whether ...

Instantly, they know they are near a person infected with the plague that has killed their world: a fungus that takes over ...

Scientists say this previously unknown species of fungus has been taking over the body of ants in the Aussie outback.